Oct 20 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq as of 1000 GMT on Friday:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

*BALAD - Nine people were killed on Thursday when 15 mortars hit the Shi'ite city of Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, and militias attacked two nearby Sunni villages, police said on Friday.

*NEAR BAIJI - Gunmen killed one worker and wounded three others working for the U.S. base near the oil refinery city of Baiji, police said.

*HINDIYA - A senior leader in the Mehdi Army militia was arrested with three of his brothers when a joint U.S. and Iraqi force raided his house in the town of Hindiya, just north of the city of Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad, a spokesman for the office of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Hindiya.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces raided a Shi'ite mosque in the Risala district in southern Baghdad, killing one person and detaining two, police and witnesses said. The mosque was damaged during the raid. The U.S. military did not immediately respond to a request for information on the raid.

AMARA - Gunmen with RPGs and AK47s attacked several police stations in Amara in southern Iraq on Thursday in serious clashes involving "rogue elements of militias," a British Army spokesman said. The Iraqi Army deployed two companies (around 230 troops) to help defend the police station and British forces provided air surveillance. Five Iraqi police were wounded.

FALLUJA - A former police chief, Brigadier Sabar al-Janabi, was killed in front of his home in Falluja, west of Baghdad, on Thursday, police said. He had been detained by U.S. forces and released two weeks ago.

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