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Two Iraqi policemen gunned down, oil line damaged by bomb
Dec 20, 2009, 13:30 GMT
Baghdad - Two policemen were gunned down Sunday in separate incidents in Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, security officials said.
The officials gave no further details of the incidents.
Meanwhile, an oil line near Kirkuk was damaged in an explosion, an official said, adding that exports to Turkey had been halted.
Some 420,000 barrels a day normally flows through the line.
Mosul and Kirkuk, which is situated some 170 kilometres from Baghdad, are two among the most dangerous places in Iraq.
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