Oct 20 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq as of 1710 GMT on Friday:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

*AMARA - Fifteen gunmen and 10 police officers were killed when Shi'ite militias attacked police stations in the southern city of Amara on Thursday and Friday, a British military spokesman quoted police as saying. The Iraqi Army deployed some 700 troops before an appeal for calm by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr restored order.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed one civilian and wounded three more in the southern Dora district of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A security detainee died from what appeared to be natural causes on Thursday at Camp Bucca, a U.S. detention facility in southern Iraq, the U.S. military said in a statement.

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 person 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 Sadr's office 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 said it arrested several suspects in raids in southern Baghdad on Friday, including one near a mosque in the area, but denied entering or damaging the mosque.

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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