Oct 16 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq reported on Monday as of 1420 GMT:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

SUWAYRA - At least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded when a car bomb went off near a bank in a market in the town of Suwayra, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

*BAGHDAD - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two others were wounded on Sunday after coming under fire in the restive province of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Three roadside bombs exploded, killing three civilians and wounding seven other people, including a policeman, near a bank in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A total of 46 bodies, with gunshot wounds and bearing signs of torture, were found in Baghdad since Saturday night, an Interior Ministry source said.

*BAGHDAD - Clashes between police and gunmen killed three people and wounded five in central Baghdad, police said.

*MOSUL - Police found the bodies of two men in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a hospital source said.

*MADAEN - Gunmen killed a policeman in an attack on police guarding electrical infrastructure in Madaen, 45 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

*KHALIS - Gunmen opened fire at shops, killing four shop owners and wounding five others in the town of Khalis, 80 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

*KHALIS - Gunmen killed two bodyguards of former Prime Minster Ibrahim al-Jaafari in Khalis, police said.

*KHALIS - A bomb placed inside a Shi'ite mosque wounded seven worshipers on Sunday in Khalis, police said.

*NEAR BAQUBA - Gunmen killed four policemen and kidnapped three others near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

*BASRA - Gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades at a parked vehicle belonging to the security detachment of the British Consulate in Basra, southern Iraq. A foreign security guard was wounded in the attack, a consulate spokeswoman said.

*MOSUL - Gunmen attacked a police patrol and wounded two in Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed the media director of the education department, Raad al-Hayali, on Sunday in Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army arrested 30 "terrorists" and 69 suspected insurgents in different parts of Iraq during the last 24 hours, the Defence Ministry said on Monday.

NAJAF - A roadside bomb targeted the convoy of Mohammad Daeekh, the head of the police crime department, wounding one of his bodyguards in the Shi'ite city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Farouq Atta, an air force brigadier, and wounded two of his companions on Sunday in northern Waziriya district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

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