Developments in Iraq on April 8

April 8 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents in Iraq on Saturday as of 1100 GMT.

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.

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

*KIRKUK - Police found the bodies of four Iraqi soldiers shot in the head with signs of torture dumped at the side of a road near the Himreen mountains 120 km (75 miles) south of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police said. The soldiers were abducted in Tikrit on Thursday.

*TUZ KHURMATU - An Iraqi contractor working for the U.S. military was abducted from the town of Tuz Khurmatu 70 km (40 miles) south of Kirkuk, police said.

*BAQUBA - Gunmen ambushed and killed Iraqi army Lieutenant- Colonel Mohammed Abdullah Jasim with his bodyguard in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

*MUSAYIB - Six Shi'ite pilgrims were killed and sixteen wounded when a car bomb exploded near a Shi'ite shrine in the town of Musayib about 55 km (34 miles) south of Baghdad, police Captain Muthana al-Mamouri said.

BAGHDAD - Two civilians from the same family were killed when a bomb exploded at the door of their house in central Baghdad, police said.

BAQUBA - Four policemen and four civilians were wounded when gunmen ambushed a police patrol in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Six policemen were wounded when a roadside bomb detonated near their patrol in Riyad, 60 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

KIRKUK - A police major and his two sons were wounded when a bomb exploded near his house in Kirkuk on Friday, police said on Saturday.

KIRKUK - Two policemen were wounded when a roadside bomb struck their patrol in Kirkuk on Friday, police said on Saturday.