May 28 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1630 GMT on Monday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - A truck bomb killed 24 people and wounded 68 others near the Sunni Abdul Qadir al-Gailani mosque in central Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - Four policemen were killed when a car bomb exploded in central Mosul, police said. The car was booby-trapped and contained the bodies of two men.

* MOSUL - Police found the bodies of three men in different parts of Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - At least two people were killed and six wounded when a car bomb exploded in the Karrada district in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Four people were killed and 29 wounded when a bomb was detonated inside a restaurant in the Bab al-Muadham district of north-central Baghdad, police said.

UWAIREG - The bodies of 12 men were found dumped in a large hole in the Uwaireeg area south of Baghdad, police said. All the victims had gun shot wounds and showed signs of torture.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded five policemen in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police said.

HAWIJA - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol wounded four soldiers near the town of Hawija, 70 km (40 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said.

BAQUBA - One person was killed and 11 wounded by a mortar round in Baquba, police said.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed an insurgent and arrested 45 others during the past 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.

BAGHDAD - A sniper killed a female college student near in al-Mustansiriya University in northeastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen ambushed a police patrol and killed three policemen and wounded seven in the Fadhil district of central Baghdad, police said.

BAQUBA - The U.S. military said U.S. and Iraqi troops had raided a suspected al Qaeda prison camp near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday and freed 41 men, some of whom had been held for four months.

NEAR BAIJI - Hamad al-Jouburi, the head of a regional "salvation council" set up to fight al-Qaeda, said that gunmen attacked his brother's two houses and abducted four of his sons and set the houses on fire in a village near Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad. Earlier, local officials said gunmen killed the four sons of Jouburi's sister.

BAGHDAD - A security detainee died on Saturday in Camp Cropper, a U.S. detention facility in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military said. It said the likely cause of death was complications from diabetes.

ANBAR - U.S. forces detained nine suspected insurgents in raids against suspected al Qaeda insurgents in northern Mosul and western Anbar province, the U.S. military said.

RAMADI - A car bomb in a busy market killed seven people and wounded 12 on Sunday in the western outskirts of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, a hospital source said. Police said a suicide car bomber rammed his car into their checkpoint, wounding three policemen and a child.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded nine others in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

NAHRAWAN - Two people were killed and one other was wounded in a mortar attack on Sunday in Nahrawan, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

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