Feb 25 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 0700 GMT on Sunday:

HABANIYA - Police put the final death toll from a truck bomb attack near a Sunni mosque in the town of Habaniya on Saturday at 45. That included 17 women and five children. Police said 110 people were wounded. Habaniya is 85 km (50 miles) west of Baghdad.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb not far from the Iranian embassy killed one person and wounded four in central Baghdad, police said. Police said the diplomatic mission did not appear to have been the target. The embassy compound was not damaged.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb seriously wounded three people in the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen stormed the house of Ibrahim Hemdan, a former senior member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, and shot him dead on Saturday in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

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