May 30 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1600 GMT on Friday: * denotes new or updated item

* BAQUBA - An Iraqi child was killed and two were wounded when a group of children playing soccer at Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, picked up a bomb and it exploded, police said.

* BAGHDAD - U.S. forces said they killed two people who they suspected were preparing a bomb attack in the New Baghdad district of the capital.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi and U.S. forces detained 10 people with suspected links to armed groups, including two alleged leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq, in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

TARMIYA - U.S. forces said they killed a man approaching them who they suspected of "hostile intent" at Tarmiya, 25 km (15 miles) north of Baghdad.

TIKRIT - U.S. forces said they killed a man they identified as an al Qaeda weapons dealer and detained another man during an operation near Tikrit, about 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad.

MOSUL - A parked car bomb wounded 20 people, including 11 women, when it exploded on Thursday near a market in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed three people in different incidents in Mosul on Thursday, police said. (Compiled by Khalid al-Ansary, editing by Adrian Croft)

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