Sept 21 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1500 GMT on Sunday.

* denotes new or updated item:

* MOSUL - A suicide truck bomb killed two policemen and wounded 40 others in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - A suicide truck bomb killed three people and wounded 23 when it exploded at a police checkpoint in the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, a local police chief, Brigadier-General Sarhat Qader, said.

NEAR JALAWLA - A roadside bomb struck a minibus, killing three occupants and wounding six others in an area near Jalawla, 115 km (70 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a senior Interior Ministry official, Brigadier-General Adel Abbas, and his driver in a drive-by shooting in Adil district, western Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded seven people, including three Iraqi soldiers, when it targeted their patrol in Waziriya district, northern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Six people, including three policemen, were wounded when a roadside bomb detonated near a police patrol in Zaafaraniya district, southeastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Four civilians and one policeman were wounded by a roadside bomb in al-Maghreb street, northern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Police found four decomposed bodies in Baghdad, including three women and the decapitated body of a man in southern Baghdad's Saidiya district, on Saturday, police said.

They also found the body of a recently shot man in another part of the capital.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a woman on Saturday just outside her house in western Mosul, police said.

KUT - Gunmen killed an off-duty policeman on Saturday in Kut, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a man who runs a local electricity generator on Saturday in northern Mosul, police said. (Compiled by Aws Qusay)

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