Oct 25 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq as of 1200 GMT on Wednesday:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

* HUSAYBA - Two people were killed and two injured when a vehicle exploded on Tuesday in a marketplace in Husayba, a town on Iraq's border with Syria, the U.S. military said.

TAL AFAR - A bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers and wounded three others as they entered a house in the northern town of Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded two policemen in the Christian neighbourhood of Camp Sara of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

DIWANIYA - A grenade thrown at a house wounded four people in the southern city of Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen wounded a policeman in Diwaniya, police said.

MAHMUDIYA - The bodies of four people, bound and gagged, were found in the town of Mahmudiya, in an area dubbed the Triangle of Death south of Baghdad, police said.

YUSUFIYA - A mortar round killed a man and wounded three others in Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A raid backed by U.S. air strikes killed four people and wounded 20 in Shi'ite Sadr City district of Baghdad, the government said, in an operation the U.S. military said was targeted at a death squad commander.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed 12 people they said were insurgents preparing to plant a roadside bomb in the western city of Ramadi, the U.S. military said on Wednesday. It said the suspected insurgents were travelling in a car that was destroyed on Tuesday with "precision munitions".

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