Oct 11 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1800 GMT on Saturday.

* indicates a new or updated item.

* AMARA - A U.S. soldier was killed on Saturday in a roadside bomb attack south of Amara, some 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.

KIRKUK - Sheikh Azad Khorsheed, deputy head of the Sunni endowment office in Kirkuk, was wounded in a bomb explosion, police said. The bomb had been attached to his car in the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad.

MOSUL - Gunmen attacked an off-duty policeman in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, wounding the policeman and killing a bystander. Another person was wounded, police said.

SAMARRA - Iraqi security forces killed two gunmen in a raid in al-Jillam, near Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Yahya Mahjoub, a member of the Nineveh provincial council, was uninjured in a roadside bomb attack in northern Mosul, police said. Iraqi police killed one suspect in the attack.

HILLA -- Gunmen shot a police officer at a checkpoint south of Hilla, some 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BALAD - Iraqi security forces killed three suspected insurgents and detained 13 others in northern Iraq between Oct. 7 and Oct. 9, the U.S. military said in a statement.

BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers captured five suspected insurgents in southern Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said in a statement.

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