Oct 18 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1730 GMT on Thursday.

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* BAGHDAD - Five bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

* BAGHDAD - One Iraqi soldier was killed and three others wounded in a roadside bomb attack on their vehicle in Arab al- Jabour on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, police said.

* DHULUIYA - Gunmen killed three tribesmen, members of a local "Awakenings Council" aligned to U.S. forces, in a drive-by shooting in Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* QARAH ANJIR - Foreign private security contractors guarding a convoy opened fire on a taxi in Qarah Anjir, 25 km (16 miles) east of Kirkuk, wounding three people, including two sisters, police said.

FALLUJA - Police killed three gunmen and arrested 10 others north of Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

HAWIJA - A parked car bomb wounded three soldiers and five people when it targeted an army patrol in central Hawija, 70 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed seven gunmen and arrested 41 others during last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.

BAGHDAD - Five bodies were found shot in different areas of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.

MOSUL - Two policemen and a civilian were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

BASRA - Five high school students were wounded when an armed man threw a grenade at their school in the southern city of Basra, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces on Tuesday detained a leader of a 300-member cell responsible for roadside bombs attacks against the U.S. and Iraqi forces in Hurriya district of northwestern Baghdad, the U.S. military said. He was the main financier and weapons supplier in Shula district of Baghdad.

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