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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, October 31

31 Oct 2011 08:15 | Source: reuters // Reuters

Oct 31 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 0800 GMT on Monday.

KHAN BANI SAAD - Gunmen using silenced weapons stormed the house of a member of the government-backed Sunni Sahwa militia and held women and children inside the home while they killed the Sahwa member and his brother outside, in the town of Khan Bani Saad, 30 km (20 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

BAQUBA - Gunmen opened fire at an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing a soldier, and planted a bomb that killed two other soldiers when they responded to the scene, late on Sunday in the eastern outskirts of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, local police said.

At the same time gunmen stormed an office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) political party in the area and injured two guards, police said.

BAGHDAD - A sticky bomb attached to a lawyer's car went off, killing him and wounding a nearby traffic policeman late on Sunday in Baghdad's northern Adhamiya district, police and hospital sources said. (Compiled by Baghdad bureau)

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