Aug 29 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1930 GMT on Wednesday:

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KERBALA - Authorities said they had restored order and imposed a curfew after clashes in the southern city of Kerbala killed 52 people and sent hundreds of thousands of pilgrims fleeing an annual Shi'ite ritual.

* BAGHDAD - Eleven bodies were found in various parts of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.

* KIRKUK - A car bomb killed three civilians and wounded seven others when it exploded in the Dumez district of the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* KIRKUK - Two people were killed and one wounded in a mortar attack on a residential area in Kirkuk, police said.

* DIWANIYAH - Two bodyguards of a government official in the southern city of Diwaniyah were killed by roadside bomb targeting their convoy, police said.

NAJAF - Gunmen killed one policeman in a drive-by shooting north of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, a security source said.

KIRKUK - One American soldier died of wounds suffered during a combat operations in vicinity of Kirkuk on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed two gunmen and arrested 22 others in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

BABIL PROVINCE - At least six people were killed and four wounded when gunmen attacked a party headquarters of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) and set it a blaze in the al-Hamza district of Babil province south of Baghdad overnight, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - Gunmen attacked and set ablaze the headquarters of SIIC in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad on Tuesday night, police said.

NAJAF - Gunmen attacked a SIIC party headquarters with rocket-propelled grenades in central Najaf city and torched a SIIC party office in the nearby holy city of Kufa.

BAGHDAD - At least one person was killed and three wounded when a car bomb exploded near al-Karkh court in central Baghdad, police said.

HAWIJA - Gunmen killed an Iraqi soldier in a drive-by shooting in Hawija, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

NEAR TIKRIT - A woman and her five children were killed on Tuesday when gunmen stormed into her house in the village of al-Bu Ajeel just east of Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked a Sunni mosque, killing three worshippers and kidnapping three others in the Qahira district of northern Baghdad on Tuesday evening, police said.

MOSUL - At least six people were killed, including five policemen, when gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in the Hammam al-Alel area south of the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday night, police said.

MOSUL - A sniper shot dead a policeman in Mosul on Tuesday, police said.

MOSUL - Police killed a gunman wearing a suicide vest in Mosul on Tuesday, police said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi soldier in southern Kirkuk on Tuesday, police said.

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