Security developments in Iraq, Sept 28

Sept 28 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq reported on Thursday, as of 1100 GMT.

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

*BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds landed on a residential district in the southern outskirts of Baghdad, killing four people and wounding four others, police said.

*BAGHDAD - A car bomb and a roadside bomb exploded in quick succession, killing four people including two policemen and wounding 38 in the al-Saadoun district in central Baghdad, police said.

*BAGHDAD - Iraqi police and army arrested 44 suspected insurgents during the past 24 hours in different cities of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.

*BALAD - Police retrieved the body of a man from the Ishaqi river in Balad, 80 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad, local authorities said. The man was an employee in a fuel station and was kidnapped on Wednesday.

*BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting a police patrol wounded four policemen in the southern Doura district of Baghdad, a source in the Interior Ministry said.

*BALAD - Gunmen killed a man in Balad, local authorities said.

*BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed a civilian in al-Tahariyat square in central Baghdad, police said.

*NEAR HAWIJA - U.S. forces killed two insurgents when they received arms fire from a truck attempting to ram the gate of a U.S. military base near Hawija, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, the U.S. military said.

*MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded two policemen in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

*NEAR KIRKUK - A roadside bomb targeted police commander Brigadier Serhat Qadir, wounding one of his guards in the main road between Rashad town and Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Qadir was unharmed.

*MOSUL - Police found the body of a man shot dead, in Mosul, police said.

*MOSUL - Gunmen killed a man in Mosul, police said.

*MUQDADIYA - U.S. force killed an insurgent and wounded another on Wednesday while they were trying to plant a bomb near Muqdadiya, 90 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army headquarters, killing two civilians and wounding 25, including nine soldiers, in Shaab district in northern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb wounded two people, including a policeman, in Bayaa district in southwestern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Several mortar rounds hit Bayaa district, wounding three people, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeted a police commando patrol, wounding three of them in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of five people were found, shot and tortured, in different districts of Baghdad, police said.

NUMANIYA - A bomb planted inside the house of a policeman wounded a passer by on Wednesday night in the small town of Numaniya, 120 km (75 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

KUT - Iraqi police arrested a gang that specialised in kidnapping children on Wednesday in Kut, 170 km (105 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. The gang confessed to the killing of a 12 year-old boy whose body was found near Kut, police added.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded but caused no casualties in Qadissiya district in southwestern Baghdad, police said.