March 7 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1400 GMT on Friday.

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* SAMARRA - U.S. soldiers killed eight suspected al Qaeda fighters and detained 10 others in raids around Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Seven other suspects were arrested in operations elsewhere in central Iraq.

* BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said coalition forces had killed an armed criminal and detained a suspected Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia coordinator in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD - Police said the death toll from coordinated bombings in the Karrada district of central Baghdad on Thursday had risen to 68. Another 120 were wounded in the attack, which the U.S. military and Iraqi government blamed on al Qaeda.

MOSUL - A girl and three policemen were killed in a suicide car bomb attack on a police station in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a Nineveh province security spokesman said. Four civilians were among 33 wounded.

MOSUL - One person was killed and 14 wounded by two roadside bombs near a policeman's house in central Mosul, a Nineveh province security spokesman said.

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