Nov 12 (Reuters) - Following are security developments and other developments in Iraq as of 1815 GMT on Sunday:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - Police found the bodies of 22 people in various parts of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, an interior ministry source said.

* BAQUBA - Around 40 bodies that were collected at the Baquba morgue over the past few weeks and unclaimed by relatives were buried on Sunday, an interior ministry source said.

BASRA - Four British troops were killed and three seriously injured in an attack on their patrol boat on the Shatt al Arab waterway in the southern city of Basra, the Ministry of Defence in London said on Sunday.

FALLUJA - Three U.S. soldiers died on Saturday from wounds suffered in combat in the western Anbar province, the U.S. military said.

NAJAF - A roadside bomb exploded in front of the home of a man who worked in an office associated with the senior clerical figure in Najaf, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, killing two of his children and seriously wounding a third, according to Sistani's office. Police and Sistani's office said the bomb had been buried in sand that construction workers delivered to the house and they did not believe the man was the intended target.

MOSUL - Two bodies with gunshot wounds were brought to the hospital in Mosul, a hospital official said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen killed the director of the main electricity power station in Kirkuk, police said.

HIT - The U.S. military said U.S.-led forces killed three suspected insurgents after an attack on a patrol in the city of Hit. Residents had said on Saturday that U.S. forces killed eight civilians in a raid in Hit, about 175 km (105 miles) west of Baghdad. It was not immediately clear if the U.S. statement referred to the same incident.

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber walked into a police recruiting centre in Baghdad and blew himself up, killing 35 people and wounding 58, Interior Ministry sources said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb followed by a roadside bomb killed three people and wounded seven others in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

TIKRIT - A roadside bomb wounded police colonel Abbas al-Dulaimi, head of the U.S.-Iraqi Joint Coordination Centre in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

YUSUFIYA - A car bomb near a primary school killed three people and wounded 15, including students, in the town of Yusufiya near Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed two people and wounded seven in the central Karada district of the capital, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded 13 in the southwestern Radhwaniya district of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded five people in southwestern Um al-Maalif district of Baghdad, police said.

MAHAWEEL - The bodies of two people were found shot dead in the town of Mahaweel, 75 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen wounded a traffic police brigadier and his driver in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained 10 suspected insurgents with ties to al-Qaeda in Iraq, the U.S. military said.

MOSUL - Mortar rounds landed near a police station, wounding five people on Saturday, police said.

LATIFIYA - Police searched for a group of Shi'ite travellers kidnapped after gunmen stopped their buses in the town of Latifiya south of Baghdad late on Saturday. Police in Diwaniya, the town were the travellers came from, said 58 were kidnapped. Latifiya police said 13 were snatched.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb in Baghdad's Amiriya district killed three civilians and wounded three others on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs went off in central Baghdad, killing four civilians and wounding 10 others, police said.

MOSUL - Police found 12 bodies in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday.

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

BAGHDAD - Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called on Sunday for a sweeping cabinet reshuffle, responding apparently to his six-month-old government's failure to rein in sectarian violence and reverse economic collapse.

BAGHDAD - Around 1,600 bodies were taken to Baghdad's morgue in October, an official said. The tally is the highest since July, when the toll hit 1,815, and was up 10 percent from 1,450 in September.

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