Developments in Iraq, March 24

March 24 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents in Iraq as of 1200 GMT on Friday.

U.S. and Iraqi forces have been battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led interim government. The bombing of a Shi'ite shrine on Feb. 22 has been followed by a surge in sectarian attacks.

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*KHALIS - Five worshippers were killed and 17 wounded by a bomb planted near a Sunni mosque in the town of Khalis, 60 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Police found five bodies, shot, blindfolded and with their hands bound, on the edge of the Shi'ite district of Sadr City, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed four bakery workers in a mostly Sunni district of Baghdad and planted an explosive booby-trap that killed a policeman responding to the attack, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three policemen were killed and one wounded when gunmen opened fire on their patrol in western Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Police found seven bodies with their hands bound and shot in the head in northern Baghdad. A police source said the bodies were dumped on a street in al-Binouk district.