Dec 24 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1700 GMT on Sunday:
* denotes new or updated item.
* BAGHDAD - Sixteen kidnap victims were rescued by the Iraqi army in the Sunni area of Mansour on Friday, the U.S. military said on Sunday. They included two men, four women and 10 children.
BAGHDAD - Six mortar rounds landed in central Baghdad, wounding 12 people, Interior Ministry sources said.
BAGHDAD - Three U.S. military police were killed and one was wounded when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD - Iraqi troops killed one insurgent and arrested 54 during the previous 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.
BAGHDAD - A total of 47 bodies were found shot dead and mostly showing signs of torture in different districts of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.
BAGDHAD - A roadside bomb killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded three on Saturday in Nahda district in central Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military patrol on a mission hunting insurgents southeast of Baghdad on Saturday, killing one soldier, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military patrol on a resupply mission southwest of Baghdad on Saturday, killing one soldier, the U.S. military said.
TAL AFAR - A roadside bomb wounded two policemen in Tal Afar, about 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.
BAQUBA - The U.S. military said an Iraqi army patrol with U.S. advisers was fired on by snipers in Baquba on Friday. The patrol then exchanged fire with insurgents, killing and wounding several gunmen. A U.S. statement said there were no reports of civilian casualties. Residents and a hospital source had said on Saturday civilians were among five people killed and 17 wounded in an attack they blamed on U.S. forces.
NEAR BAQUBA - Gunmen in army uniforms kidnapped five Sunni Arabs on Saturday night from a town near Baquba, police said.
*SAMAWA - The death toll from fighting since Saturday between Iraqi security forces and militias loyal to cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Samawa, 270 km (170 miles) south of Baghdad, rose to eight, including four policemen, and 32 more people were wounded, a hospital source said. The city was under a vehicle curfew on Sunday as sporadic clashes continued.
DIWANIYA - Police retrieved the bodies of three people from the river on Saturday in the southern city of Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
QANAQIN - A rocket landed on a residential district, wounding 18 people, in the town of Qanaqin, about 160 km (100 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.
MUQDADIYA - A suicide bomber killed seven police and wounded 30 more on Sunday in an attack on a police station in Muqdadiya, 90 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, a police source said.
