FACTBOX - Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 3:00 p.m. British time on Thursday.

SAMARRA - Iraqi police killed 11 gunmen, including seven foreign Arab nationals, and captured 47 suspected militants in an operation in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

SAMARRA - A roadside bomb wounded seven members of a U.S. -backed neighbourhood patrol in Samarra, police said.

RAMADI - U.S. and Iraqi forces launched an operation to search for wanted militants in the city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad.

HILLA - Gunmen shot dead a civilian in Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

HILLA - Iraqi police found the body of a civilian in Hilla, police said. The body showed signs of torture.

(Compiled by Khalid al-Ansary)