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.