FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 12:30 p.m. EST on Monday.

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - An unspecified number of foreign security guards were arrested by Iraqi security forces after a shooting in central Baghdad's Karrada district, security spokesman Brigadier-General Qassim Moussawi said. A convoy of four four-wheel drives was passing through a square on the edge of Karrada when a woman crossing the road was shot. The guards were arrested at a nearby checkpoint.

* BASRA - Six members of the same family were killed when a Katyusha rocket hit their house in the oil hub of Basra, 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said. Three of the dead were children.

* BAGHDAD - Three bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Monday, police said.

* MOSUL - One policeman was killed and two wounded in a drive-by shooting at a police checkpoint in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A car bomb wounded five people in the Bayaa district of southwestern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two people on Palestine Street in northeastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed six suspected militants and detained 69 others in different parts of Iraq, the Defense Ministry said.

NEAR BAQUBA - Gunmen attacked a police station, killing three policemen in a village north of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - One person was killed and seven were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a small bus in Baladiyat district in eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAIJI - A parked car bomb wounded five people, including two children, when it exploded near the house of a policeman in the oil refinery city of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

SUWAYRA - Police retrieved the bodies of two men bearing signs of torture from the Tigris river on Sunday in the town of Suwayra, south of Baghdad, police said.

KUT - Police retrieved the body of a three-year-old boy from a river on Sunday in the city of Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - The body of a man who had been shot in the head was found on Sunday in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

LATIFIYA - The decomposed body of a man was found in the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said.

(Editing by Paul Tait)