FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, May 23

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1900 GMT on Wednesday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - Thirty bodies were found shot around Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked a convoy carrying U.S. State Department officials in Rusafa in Baghdad's east, the U.S. military said. Security forces backed by Apache helicopters returned fire and there were no reported casualties in the convoy, the military said. Local police said four civilians were killed and 11 wounded in the Sinak area of Baghdad.

* SAMARRA - A roadside bomb killed five policemen on patrol in central Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed one soldier and wounded three in the al-Shurta district of southwestern Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - Eight people were wounded in mortar attacks on a residential area in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said it killed six suspected militants in raids targeting senior leaders of an al Qaeda suicide attack cell and detained 23 others around Iraq.

MANDALI - A bomber wearing a suicide vest killed 20 people and wounded 30 in a cafe in Mandali, a predominantly Kurdish Shi'ite town about 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. The town's mayor put the death toll at 11.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said nine U.S. soldiers were killed in four separate bomb and shooting attacks on Monday and Tuesday in or around Baghdad.

JBELA - At least three people were killed and 15 wounded by a car bomb in a parking lot in the town of Jbela, near Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police spokesman Captain Muthanna al-Maamouri said.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said it had taken custody of a body that Iraqi police said was that of one of three missing U.S. soldiers. It was found floating in the Euphrates River south of Baghdad on Wednesday.

BAGHDAD - Mortar bombs killed three people and wounded 14 in Karrada district in central Baghdad, police said.

TIKRIT - A hospital in Tikrit received the decomposed bodies of three men shot who were found in the town of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, a security source said.

RAMADI - The bodies of five people were found shot and tortured in different districts of the city of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in a town near Mosul, police said.