Aug 27 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1630 GMT on Wednesday.

* denotes a new or updated item.

* TAL AFAR - A suicide car bomber wounded 22 people in Tal Afar, some 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, according to Sabih Hussein, chief physician at the Tal Afar government hospital. A police source in nearby Mosul said that only two people had been wounded.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces arrested at the Baghdad airport a man suspected in a June bomb attack that killed 10 people, including two U.S. government employees and two U.S. soldiers in the Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City, said Major-General Qassim Moussawi, spokesman for the Iraqi military in Baghdad.

MOSUL - Gunmen shot dead a civilian in a shop in the al-Nur area of eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb in a parked car killed one person and wounded seven others when it exploded in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier died of wounds received following a roadside bomb attack on his vehicle on Tuesday in northeastern Baghdad, a U.S. military statement said.

BAGHDAD - Three suspected militants died and six more were detained in U.S. operations in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, a U.S. military statement said.

NUMANIYA - Iraqi police found the body of a woman in the town of Numaniya, 120 km (72 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

(Compiled by Khalid al-Ansary)

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