Oct 5 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq reported on Thursday as of 1300 GMT: BAGHDAD - Gunmen opened fire at a cafe, killing five people and wounded six on Wednesday night in the district of Zaafaraniya on the southern outskirts of Baghdad, a source in the Interior Ministry said. SAMAWA - Gunmen stormed a home in the southern Iraqi city of Samawa late on Wednesday, shooting dead three women and slitting the throat of a baby girl, neighbours and hospital officials said. BAGHDAD - A total of 30 bodies, most of them shot and tortured, were found in different districts of Baghdad during the past 24 hours, a source in the Interior Ministry said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed two people and wounded eight in Hurriya district in northwestern Baghdad, a source in the Interior Ministry said. The target of the explosion was not clear. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded 20 labourers as it exploded near a crowd of men waiting for day jobs in central Baghdad's Tayaran square, a source in the Interior Ministry said. UKASHAT - Police found the bodies of five people, shot dead with signs of torture, in the small town of Ukashat, about 500 km (310 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. FALLUJA - Gunmen killed two people, including a policeman, in the Sunni town of Falluja, just west of Baghdad, police said. AL-BAGHDADI - Police Brigadier Shaaban al-Obeidi died of wounds he sustained in a roadside bombing near his convoy on Wednesday in the town of al-Baghdadi, in Anbar province between Ramadi and Haditha, police said. RAMADI - Four people were killed and six wounded in clashes between insurgents and U.S. forces in the insurgent stronghold city of Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, Doctor Ahmed al-Rawi, head of Anbar health directorate said. BAQUBA - Gunmen killed a police officer in a drive-by shooting in the religiously mixed town of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. MAHMUDIYA - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded two policemen in Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. MAHMUDIYA - Several mortar rounds killed a man and wounded five of his family when they landed on their home in the town of Mahmudiya, just south of Baghdad, police said. MAHMUDIYA - Iraqi police found two bodies with gunshot wounds in Mahmudiya, police said. NEAR KIRKUK - A corpse was found near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The victim was shot in the head. NEAR BALAD RUZ - Several mortar rounds killed two people and wounded five others on Wednesday when they landed on a village near Balad Ruz, a town about 50 km (30 miles) southeast of Baquba, police said. MOSUL - Gunmen killed two people in separate incidents on Wednesday in the northern city of Mosul, a source in the hospital said. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS: BAGHDAD - The U.S. military and Iraqi government denied reports that al Qaeda's leader in Iraq had been killed in a raid but said DNA tests would be conducted on bodies recovered after the attack to make sure. BAGHDAD - The Baghdad morgue said it had received 1,440 bodies in September, roughly 85 percent of whom were victims of violence. This was a drop on the 1,550 it reported in August and the 1,815 in July. BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army arrested 124 suspected insurgents during the past 24 hours in different cities of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.
