FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 17

April 17 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2030 GMT on Thursday.



ADHAIM - A suicide bomber struck a funeral in Adhaim, a village in Diyala province north of Baghdad, killing 49 mourners, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces said they killed five militants in gunbattles and airstrikes overnight in the east Baghdad Shi'ite slum Sadr City. Two Sadr City hospitals said they received the bodies of nine people killed in clashes there.

* BASRA - Gunmen opened fire on a car containing former Basra police chief Brigadier-General Mohamed Kadhim al-Ali in a driveby shooting. One of the general's bodyguards was killed. The general and two others were wounded.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb struck a police patrol near a bridge in eastern Baghdad, killing two policemen and wounding 10 others, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded in Sina Street, east-central Baghdad, wounding two civilians, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen driving in a car opened fire on civilians in the Zayouna neighbourhood of eastern Baghdad, wounding three civilians, police said.

MOSUL - Three people were wounded when gunmen hurled a hand grenade at a police patrol in western Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar round landed in Palestine Street, eastern Baghdad, on Wednesday wounding seven civilians including 2 women, Iraqi police said.

MOSUL - Iraqi police found the body of a woman in Mosul on Wednesday, police said.

(Compiled by Khalid Al-Ansary, editing by Dean Yates)