March 4 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1245 GMT on Sunday: Asterisk denotes a new or updated item. * NEAR BAQUBA - A roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi army patrol, killing four soldiers in a village near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. * NEAR HILLA - A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military patrol, killing three women and one girl and wounding six others near the city of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. The victims were pilgrims heading to the holy city of Kerbala. * BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting a police patrol killed one person and wounded four others in the southern Doura district of Baghdad, police said. * BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked a police patrol and killed a policeman and wounded two others in Adhamiya district in northern Baghdad, police said. * BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb near an intersection wounded two people in Doura district, police said. * BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained three suspected insurgents during a raid at a mosque in Baghdad, the U.S. military said. A woman was wounded during the operation. * BASRA - Iraqi forces backed by British troops found evidence of torture when they raided an Iraqi intelligence agency detention centre in the southern city of Basra, a British military spokesman said. Major David Gell said Iraqi counter- terrorist forces arrested five suspects earlier in a raid that provided intelligence leading to the detention centre raid. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded three others in al-Kifah street in central Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A total of 10 bodies were found shot dead on Saturday in different districts of Baghdad, police said. MOSUL - A total of nine bodies were found shot dead on Saturday in different districts of the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A journalist was shot dead outside his home in a Sunni neighbourhood in western Baghdad, neighbours and colleagues at his newspaper said. Mohan al-Dhaher was a senior editor at the independent al-Mashriq daily newspaper. NEAR TIKRIT - The bodies of two people were found shot dead east of Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. TIKRIT - U.S. and Iraqi forces detained more than 50 suspected insurgents in three days of operations near Tikrit, north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
