Nov 25 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 2115 GMT on Saturday.

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* BAGHDAD - A vehicle curfew in Baghdad was extended to 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) on Monday, the government spokesman said. It had been imposed after Thursday's devastating bombings in the Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City.

* BAGHDAD - Baghdad police retrieved 30 bodies of victims of violence on Friday and 17 on Saturday, an Interior Ministry source said. At the main hospital in mostly Sunni west Baghdad, Yarmouk, a source said it took in 21 bodies on Friday and 12 on Saturday, or 33 in all. Deputy Health Minister Hakim al-Zamily, a member of the Shi'ite faction led by radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, called Reuters to say hospitals were saying 33 Shi'ites had been killed in sectarian attacks in west Baghdad. The Interior Ministry and hospital sources could not confirm that.

BAGHDAD - Police in the capital found eight unidentified bodies overnight up to Saturday morning.

MOSUL - Gunmen ambushed and killed one policeman and wounded another in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen wounded three Iraqi soldiers, police said.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said the Iraqi army found one mosque burned on Friday in a Sunni enclave of the mainly Shi'ite Hurriya district. Iraqi Defence Minister Abdul Qader Jasim told state television on Saturday one mosque was slightly damaged by fire and there were a few casualties. Deputy Prime Minister Salam al-Zobaie, a Sunni, told Reuters on Friday four mosques were attacked, several homes burned and there were a number of casualties. A source at police headquarters said on Friday 30 people had been killed and 48 wounded. An Interior Ministry source, however, later said there were three people killed. A resident who said he was present at the Nida Allah mosque told Reuters on Friday that 14 people were killed and eight at another mosque. Conflicting reports from Iraqi officials are not uncommon. A curfew has prevented independent verification.

BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds fell on a number of neighbourhoods of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. A woman was killed and three wounded in Hurriya in the northwest, five people were wounded in Ghazaliya in the west and seven were wounded in Mustansiriya in the east.

BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds hit the Shi'ite slum district of Sadr City, but there were no reports of casualties, residents said. Two mortar bombs also landed near the local office of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the Shi'ite enclave of Shula in mainly Sunni west Baghdad, a Sadr official said.

FALLUJA - A U.S. Marine died on Friday of wounds sustained in combat in Iraq's western Anbar province, the U.S. military said in a statement.

* BALAD RUZ - Police found the bodies of 21 Shi'ites from an extended family, hours after they were abducted from homes in a mostly Sunni village outside Balad Ruz, 70 km (45 miles) northeast of Baghdad, a security source said. All of the dead were men and boys, aged from 12 upward.

TAJI - The U.S. military said it killed 22 insurgents in two separate clashes just north of Baghdad, shortly after carrying out three air strikes that destroyed a bomb-making factory.

BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds killed one mourner at a funeral and wounded six others in the mainly Shi'ite area of Abu Dshir in southern Baghdad, police and relatives of the victims said.

DAQUQ - Two militants died when a roadside bomb they were planting detonated by accident, police sources said. The incident happened on a main road near the town of Daquq, 35 km (20 miles) south of Kirkuk.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb wounded four policemen when it exploded near their patrol in the ethnically tense city of Kirkuk, police said.

TIKRIT - A roadside bomb killed two guards and wounded three on Friday when it targeted the convoy of Brigadier-General Faridoun Talabani, who was lightly wounded, police said. Talabani is a senior commander in the Iraqi army.

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