Oct 13 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq reported on Friday as of 1450 GMT:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

*TIKRIT - A U.S. soldier was killed on Thursday by a roadside bomb in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said on Friday.

HILLA - A bomb planted inside a police station in Hilla killed Colonel Salam al-Mamoury, commander of a special police force, his deputy and six other people. The blast wounded 10 others and punched a hole in the building's ceiling in central Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, said Captain Muthana al-Mamoury, spokesman for Hilla police.

NEAR DHULUIYA - The bodies of 14 workers, their throats slit and their hands and legs bound, were found in an orchard near Dhuluiya, a town 40 km (25 miles) north of Baghdad in central Sunni Salahedin province, police said. The labourers were from the mostly Shi'ite town of Balad, north of Baghdad.

NEAR BASRA - Sheikh Radhi al-Assadi, local head of a Shi'ite Muslim religious association, was gunned down on Thursday night just west of Basra, 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

SUWAYRA - Gunmen killed six adults and two children in a rural area south of Baghdad, police said. A police source said all the victims were women. Two other women were kidnapped in the attack in an orchard near Suwayra, a town some 45 km (28 miles) south of Baghdad. The motives were unclear.

BALAD - A local hospital morgue received the corpses of seven men, riddled with bullets, killed in an area west of Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, a hospital source said.

NEAR GARMA - The bodies of two men with multiple gunshot wounds, bearing signs of torture, were found near Garma, near Falluja, in western Baghdad, police said.

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS

LONDON - Britain's army chief General Richard Dannatt said in an interview with London's Daily Mail newspaper that his troops should be withdrawn from Iraq soon as their presence was making security worse.

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