http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL162493.htmOctober 11th 2006 In Iraq.
Oct 11 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq reported on Wednesday as of 1730 GMT:
Asterisk denotes new or updated item.
*BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier died after his patrol was struck by a roadside bomb in central Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.
*BAGHDAD - The headless corpse of a Christian priest was found in the outskirts of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. A hospital source identified him as Amir Ayuub. No more information was available.
*BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded at an intersection in the mostly Shi'ite district of Amil, southwestern Baghdad, killing five labourers and wounding six, an Interior Ministry source said.
*BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed four members of one family and wounded two others after they broke into their house in Doura district, southern Baghdad, a source at the Interior Ministry said.
*BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol exploded near the mortuary of Yarmouk hospital in west-central Baghdad, killing one and wounding six, including three policemen, an Interior Ministry source said.
KUT - The bodies of five men bound and blindfolded with multiple gunshot wounds, bearing signs of torture, were separately found in central Kut, 170 km (106 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said. Three of the bodies had been retrieved from the Tigris river, they added.
BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded near the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in northern Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding seven, an Interior Ministry source said. The target of the bomb was not clear, the source said.
ANBAR PROVINCE - Three U.S. Marines died in action on Monday while operating in Anbar province, western Iraq, the U.S. Military said in a statement on Wednesday.
INSKANDARIYA - Brigadier Qais al-Mamouri, chief of Babil police, escaped an assassination attempt when his convoy was struck by a roadside bomb in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. His driver and two of his bodyguards were wounded in the attack, they added.
RASHEED - One insurgent and two policemen were killed and four people were wounded following clashes that erupted after gunmen attacked a police station in the small town of Rasheed, about 30 km (19 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army has arrested 12 insurgents and 34 suspected insurgents in the last 24 hours in various parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.
SUWAYRA - Raad al-Uthmani, a religious cleric of the Mandanien sect, was shot dead by gunmen after they broke into his house in Suwayra, a town south of Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs targeting a police patrol exploded in quick succession in Ghadeer district, eastern Baghdad, wounding eight people, including three policemen, a source at the Interior Ministry said.
NEAR KUT - A peasant woman died when a bomb exploded while she was inside a farm just 10 km (6 miles) southeast of Kut, south of Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said a mortar round fired by militiamen caused a fire at an ammunition dump inside a U.S. military base in southern Baghdad, which caused a series of explosions that rocked the capital on Tuesday night. No casualties were reported, the U.S. military said.
FALLUJA - Gunmen killed a policeman in front of his house in the western city of Falluja, Falluja police said.
*NEAR NAJAF - Police detained four al Qaeda suspects near Najaf, southern Iraq, a Najaf governorate spokesman said. One of the detainees, identified as Bassim Quweidir, is suspected of involvement in the February bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra, which sparked a wage of sectarian bloodshed.
*BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped the manager of a company that builds power generators after they broke into his office in Karrada, central Baghdad, police said.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
*BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament approved a law that sets down the mechanics of forming federal regions around the country, an issue Sunni minority leaders fear might tear the country apart in sectarian civil war.
*BAGHDAD - Iraq's central criminal court sentenced Ayham al -Samarraie, a former Iraqi electricity minister, to two years in jail for wasting public money.
*LONDON - U.S. and Iraqi public health experts calculate that about 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion and subsequent violence, according to a study published by the medical journal The Lancet. Iraq's government called the report "exaggerated and not precise."
BAGHDAD - The trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and six co-accused resumed in Baghdad, with all defendants present. The six are on trial over the 1988 Anfal campaign against ethnic Kurds which prosecutors say killed more than 180,000 people.
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