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.