FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, May 8

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 11:45 a.m. EDT on Thursday.

* denotes new or updated item:

* BAGHDAD - A parked car bomb exploded near a police patrol in the Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad, killed seven people, including three policemen, police said. The attack wounded 19 civilians.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said it killed 17 gunmen in several clashes across Baghdad, including in the Shi'ite slum of Sadr City. It said the incidents took place on Wednesday and Thursday.

BAGHDAD - A Katyusha rocket landed in central Baghdad, killing three people and wounding six, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a small bus, killing one person and wounding four others in the Zayouna district of eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three people were wounded by a roadside bomb near the National Theatre in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Five Iraqi soldiers were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol near the al-Shaab National Stadium in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained 13 suspected insurgents during operations around the country targeting al Qaeda in Iraq, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Seven people were killed and 20 wounded in the Mehdi Army militia stronghold of Sadr City in eastern Baghdad in overnight clashes, police said.

DHULUIYA - A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives attacked the convoy of Mohammed Khalid, the police chief of Dhuluiya town, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, wounding him and hurting the head of a local neighborhood patrol and three of his security guards, Khalid said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of four people were found in Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.

MOSUL - A policeman was seriously wounded when a bomb exploded near his home in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - The body of a man was found in Mosul on Wednesday, police said.

(Compiled by Aseel Kami, editing by Dean Yates)