FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Jan 16 16 Jan 2009

Source: Reuters
 * MOSUL – Gunmen burst into a house and opened fire in Mosul, 390 km (290 miles) north of Baghdad, killing one woman and wounding two other people, police said.

* JBELA – Gunmen killed Haythem al-Hasnowi, a candidate in Iraq’s provincial election, when they opened fire on his convoy near the town of Jbela, 65 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

ISHAQI – A roadside bomb killed three civilians and wounded another five when it struck their vehicle in Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK – A Katyusha rocket wounded a civilian when it landed near the local government headquarters of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL – Iraqi police found the body of a Christian man with gunshot wounds to the head in northern Mosul, on Thursday, police said.

MOSUL – A roadside bomb wounded an Iraqi soldier on Thursday, when it struck an army patrol in northern Mosul, police said.

MUSSAYAB – Iraqi police found the body of a policeman in Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, on Thursday, police said.

KIRKUK – Iraqi police found the bodies of three men bearing signs of torture and gunshot wounds in northwestern Kirkuk on Thursday, police said.
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