March 14 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1500 GMT on Friday.

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* KUT - One person was killed and six wounded when a bomb on a parked motorcycle exploded near a municipal council building some 50 km (30 miles) south of Baghdad.

* SAMARRA - A 15 year-old girl was killed on Thursday when police opened fire on her family's car when it failed to stop at a checkpoint in Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police and hospital officials said.

NAJAF - Gunmen killed a policeman on Thursday in a drive-by shooting outside his house in northern Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

SAMARRA - Police and a U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrol unit killed an al Qaeda leader in Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

MOSUL - Two suicide car bombers targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint killed three soldiers and wounded 10 other people, including five civilians in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

AL-ZAB - A female suicide bomber killed two people and wounded six others, including one U.S. soldier, in the town of al-Zab, 35 km (20 miles) southwest of the northern city of Kirkuk, on Thursday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers killed two suspected al Qaeda militants and arrested 24 others during operations in central and northern Iraq on Wednesday and Thursday, the U.S. military said.

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