FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 7

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* QAIM - Explosions tore through the homes of the local leader of the government-backed Sahwa militia in Qaim and his son, 300 km (185 miles) west of Baghdad. No one was hurt in the initial blasts, but when police arrived to investigate, another explosion killed two officers and wounded three.

* BAGHDAD - The death toll in a car bomb in Baghdad's western Mansour district rose to three, with nine wounded, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded in southwestern Baghdad, killing two policemen and wounding seven people, including three policemen, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol, wounding five people, including two policemen in Baghdad's southwestern Amil district.

* DIYALA - Two policemen were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol in Mansouriya, 75 km east of Baquba.

* HEMREEN - Iraqi security forces arrested nine suspected members of the al Qaeda in Iraq and seized large quantities of weapons in the Hemreen mountains, about 90 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

FALLUJA - Gunmen and bombers attacked the homes of five police officers in Iraq's western Anbar province, killing one person and wounding at least 20 people, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded two civilians in Baghdad's southern district of Doura, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb in Baghdad's eastern Sadr City wounded eight civilians, a police source said.

MOSUL - A shop owner was shot dead in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in central Mosul wounded a civilian and his son, police said.

ABU GHRAIB - Armed people killed an imam and two of his sons in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, police said. The imam's wife and two-year-old son were seriously wounded. The imam was a member of the government-backed Sahwa militia.

MOSUL - Iraqi security forces killed a suspected senior leader of al Qaeda in Iraq and two criminal associates in eastern Mosul on Saturday, the U.S. military said.

JURF AL-SAHKAR - Armed men killed three members of Sahwa, a government-backed militia, and wounded a fourth in their homes in Jurj al-Sahkar, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad on Sunday, police said.