April 4 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1400 GMT on Friday.

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HAMRIN - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral near the town of Hamrin in Diyala province north of Baghdad. The attack killed nine people and wounded 30 others, said Major-General Abdul-Karim al-Rubaie, commander of operations in the province.

* NORTHERN IRAQ - The U.S. military said it killed at least six suspects and captured at least 20 in a series of raids across northern Iraq.

* BASRA - Gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades at a convoy carrying senior Iraqi commanders in Basra, a Reuters correspondent in the convoy said. Nobody was hurt.

MUSSAYAB - A roadside bomb killed three policemen and wounded two others when it struck their patrol in Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb blast struck a police patrol, killing one policeman and wounding another on Thursday in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Police said they found two bodies on Thursday in Baghdad.

JURF AL-SAKHAR - One man was killed by a bomb blast on Thursday in Jurf al-Sakhar, 85 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

NEAR SAMARRA - Gunmen killed a member of a U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrol in a drive-by shooting on a checkpoint near Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay; editing by Peter Graff)

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