Iraq: Insecurity update as of Tuesday 1900 GMT

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Following are 'security' developments in Iraq as of Tuesday 23rd May 1900 GMT:

BAGHDAD - A bomb hidden in a motorcycle parked near a Shi'ite mosque exploded in the Tunis district of Baghdad, killing at least 11 people at a nearby sandwich shop, police said. At least eight people were wounded.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb at a bakery killed at least four people and wounded nine, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded at a city square and traffic intersection in the mainly Shi'ite Sadr City district of east Baghdad, killing at least five people and wounding 13, police sources said.

SAMARRA - Assaad Ali Yassin, head of the municipality council, escaped an assassination attempt when gunmen opened fire at his convoy in central Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police and Yassin said. His guards responded to the attack, killing three insurgents and wounding a fourth. One of his guards was also wounded in the attack, they said.

BAGHDAD - Five civilians were killed and seven police commandos wounded when a car bomb exploded targeting a police commando patrol in eastern Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Four people were killed and another wounded when gunmen opened fire while they were driving in their car in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A 12-year-old Shi'ite Muslim boy was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in the southern Dora district of Baghdad, police said. They said he was blindfolded, handcuffed and tortured.

BAGHDAD - A mortar round landed about 100 metres (yards) from the Defence Ministry, killing a civilian and wounding four others, police said.

BAGHDAD - A civilian was killed and four others wounded when a roadside bomb went off in western district of the capital, police said.

BAQUBA - Gunmen killed three old men sitting in front of a house in Baquba, 65 km northeast of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen killed a school teacher in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad, police said.

RAMADI - Two civilians were killed and three others, including two children, wounded when clashes erupted between U.S. forces and insurgents in the city of Ramadi, 110 km west of Baghdad, police and hospital officials said.

RAMADI - Three mortar rounds landed on a house in the city of Ramadi wounding three people from one family, a source in the civil defence forces said.

ASWAD - Gunmen killed three men and wounded seven among a crowd of labourers looking for work on farms in the small town of Aswad, near Baquba, police said. The workers were from a nearby Shi'ite town. Aswad is mainly Sunni.

AIN AL-TAMUR - Iraqi police found the bodies of four people, handcuffed, blindfolded and shot dead, in the town of Ain al-Tamur, about 90 km south of Baghdad, police said.

NAJAF - Four mortar rounds landed in different districts in the Shi'ite city of Najaf, 160 km south of Baghdad, wounding two people late on Monday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Ahmed Ali Hussein, a professor at Baghdad's Technology University, in northeastern Baghdad, police said. {Reuters}