Dec 3 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq as of 0900 GMT on Sunday.

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - A mortar round landed on a secondary school, wounding 10 students in Bab al-Muadham district in north-central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

* NEAR GARMA - U.S. air strikes destroyed two foreign fighter safe houses west of Baghdad on Saturday night, killing five insurgents, two women and a child, the U.S. military said on Sunday. Residents put the death toll in the village of al-Lihaib near the town of Garma much higher, saying as many as 24 people had been killed and some buildings levelled. The figures could not be independently confirmed.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded six people near al-Shaab Stadium in east-central Baghdad, police said.

NEAR KIRKUK - A suicide bomber blew up a car near the convoy of a senior police officer, killing three of his guards and wounding two others near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. The police officer was wounded in the incident.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped Haitham Yassin, an adviser to the electricity minister, on Saturday in Baghdad's northern Shaab district, police said.

BAQUBA - U.S.-Iraqi forces launched an offensive in the volatile town of Baquba north of Baghdad, killing three insurgents and detaining 44. Three Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the operation, the U.S. military said in a statement. U.S. and Iraqi troops also captured a suspected insurgent leader during a raid on Friday near Baquba, the military said.

RAMADI - U.S. and Iraqi forces captured a member of an insurgent cell on Saturday south of Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad. They also arrested three other suspects during the raid, the U.S. military said in a statement.

BASRA - A roadside bombing targeting British military patrol in the southern oil city of Basra wounded three university students, police said.

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