FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2130 GMT on Friday.

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* BAGHDAD - Heavy clashes between Mehdi Army militiamen and U.S. and Iraqi forces erupted in Baghdad's Sadr City slum late on Friday, a Reuters correspondent there said. Details on casualties were not immediately available.

* BAGHDAD - A mortar round killed two people and wounded five others when it struck a bakery in the Talibiya neighborhood of northern Baghdad, police said.

* NEAR BALAD RUZ - Clashes between neighborhood patrol volunteers and suspected al-Qaeda members killed two volunteers, two insurgents and two civilians in the village of Karboul near Balad Ruz, in Diyala province north of Baghdad, police said.

* AL-BAAJ - Clashes broke out between gunmen and Iraqi troops in the town of al-Baaj, 120 km (72 miles) west of Mosul, police said. Four gunmen were killed and five were wounded. Three soldiers were also wounded.

* MOSUL - Two unidentified bodies were found in Mosul, 390 km (260 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* BAJI - A suicide truck bomber killed one neighborhood patrol volunteer and wounded 10 others when he rammed his truck into a checkpoint in Baji, 180 km(112 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Three bodies were found across Baghdad on Friday, police said.

RAMADI - A suicide car bomb killed three Iraqi police and wounded five near Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

NAJAF - Iraqi police imposed a curfew to prevent an outbreak of violence on Friday in the southern Shi'ite holy city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, after a senior aide to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was shot dead.

BAGHDAD - A missile ripped a hole through the second floor of Baghdad's Palestine Hotel on Friday, Reuters witnesses said, and police said three civilians were killed and seven injured.

MOSUL - Gunmen launched a mortar attack on an Iraqi army outpost in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, wounding 11 people including four women, the U.S. military said.

NEAR BAIJI - Gunmen killed an off-duty army officer and wounded three of his children inside their car when they were traveling near Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces fired a Hellfire missile late on Thursday at a group of men carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers in Sadr City, northeastern Baghdad, killing six, the U.S. military said.

BASRA - A U.S. aircraft launched an air strike overnight against fighters they said engaged Iraqi ground troops in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, killing six and wounding one, the British military said.