July 5 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1800 GMT on Saturday.

* denotes new or updated items.

* MOSUL - Iraqi special forces killed one militant and detained eight others in an operation against al Qaeda in the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. The man had attempted to detonate explosives strapped to himself before being shot dead, it said.

MOSUL - Militants shot dead two off-duty policemen in a market in eastern Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded six others including two policemen when it targeted a police patrol in northern Mosul, police said.

NEAR TIKRIT - Iraqi police killed four militants, two of them foreigners, just south of Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a car killed two people and wounded eight others on Friday in the Yarmouk district of western Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two bodies were found in Baghdad on Friday, police said.

BASRA - Gunmen killed Salim al-Daraji, an official of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) in northern Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad on Friday, police said.

MAHAWEEL - One body was found bearing gunshot wounds and signs of torture on Friday in a house in Mahaweel, 60 km (35 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

FALLUJA - A roadside bomb wounded Khalid Mohammed, an official of the Iraqi Islamic Party in Falluja, and three other people, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded one policeman and one civilian in the Karrada district of central Baghdad, police said. (Compiled by Aws Qusay and Tim Cocks)

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