April 29 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1100 GMT on Sunday:

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed three people and wounded eight others in the southern Baghdad Zaafaraniya district, police said.

BAGHDAD - Amal al-Mudarress, a well-known Iraqi journalist, was seriously wounded after gunmen shot her near her home in western Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

BAGHDAD - At least seven Katyusha rockets landed near a Sunni mosque in the northern Baghdad Adhamiya district, killing two guards and wounding seven others on Saturday, police said.

NEAR SAMARRA - Gunmen set fire to 15 fuel trucks and kidnapped their drivers on a main road near the city of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. troops captured 72 suspected insurgents and seized nitric acid and other bomb-making materials in overnight raids on al Qaeda in the north and west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

KUT - A roadside bomb exploded near the house of Jawad Magtouf, a Sadr Movement representative in Kut's city council, on Saturday, police said. He was not hurt but his 12 year-old son was killed and nine family members were wounded in Kut 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi army killed two insurgents and arrested 112 others during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

BAGHDAD - Iran has told Iraq that it will attend a meeting of major powers in Egypt this week that will seek ways to end the violence in Iraq, the office of Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Sunday.

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