April 25 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1830 GMT on Wednesday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BALAD RUZ - A suicide bomber killed nine people and wounded 16 others in an attack inside a police station in Balad Ruz near Baquba in volatile Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded eight when it blew up near a petrol station in northern Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite Shaab district, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar barrage killed one person and wounded five others when they landed in a residential area of southern Baghdad's Shi'ite Abu Dshir neighbourhood, police said.

* BAGHDAD - An Iraqi interpreter was injured in a roadside bomb attack on a military patrol in the west Rashid district of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

MOSUL - Iraq's former bodybuilding champion, Ali al-Bayati, was assassinated in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed two civilians and wounded another in Mosul, police said. The motive for the attack was not immediately clear.

TUZ KHURMATO - Gunmen killed a police officer and wounded two others when they attacked a patrol car just south of the town of Tuz Khurmato, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Five people were killed and 17 others wounded by mortar rounds which landed in the Zaafaraniya district of southern Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. Another police source put the death toll at four killed and 10 wounded.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded five people in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed two insurgents and detained 122 suspected insurgents during the past 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.

HILLA - Police said they found the body of a man who was shot dead near the city of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three Iraqi soldiers when it exploded near a military patrol in Baghdad's mainly Sunni Adhamiya district, police said.

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