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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Feb 2

by Reuters
Wednesday, 2 February 2011 14:09 GMT

Feb 2 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1400 GMT on Wednesday.

* denotes new or updated items.

* RABEA - Gunmen in a car killed a police captain inside his car and wounded a passenger in the northern town of Rabea, near the Syrian border, police said.

* ABU GHRAIB - Gunmen opened fire at an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing two soldiers, in the district of Abu Ghraib, in western Baghdad, police said.

TAJI - Gunmen using silenced weapons killed an official of Iraq's National Intelligence Service in his car, and wounded two of his relatives, near the town of Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A sticky bomb attached to a car killed a father and wounded his wife and child near Yarmouk hospital in western Baghdad on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source said.

MOSUL - Gunmen attacked and wounded an off-duty policeman near his home in southern Mosul, 390 km ( 240 miles) north of Baghdad, late on Tuesday, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen wounded a civilian in front of his home in eastern Mosul on Tuesday night, police said. (Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)

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