FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 21 (One more US troop dead)

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Source: Reuters





FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 21
21 Apr 2007 17:12:34 GMT
Source: Reuters


April 21 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1700 GMT on Saturday:

* denotes new or updated items

* FALLUJA - Gunmen shot the head of the Falluja municipal council, Sami al-Jibouri, in central Falluja, police said.

MUSSAYAB - Mussayab Mayor Mehdi Abdul Hussein al-Najem and two of his bodyguards were killed in an ambush, police said. A roadside bomb exploded next to their vehicles in the attack at Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, and gunmen then opened fire.

BAGHDAD - One soldier was killed and two wounded when they were hit by a roadside bomb during a patrol southwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said

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and two US troops wounded (bomb).