FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 4 p.m. British time on Wednesday:

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* KIRKUK - Three Iraqi journalists and their driver were dragged from their car, tortured and then shot dead near the northern city of Kirkuk. police said. The bodies of the four men all bore deep slash marks across their faces and limbs, television pictures showed.

* ISKANDARIYA - Gunmen ambushed a minibus in the town of Iskandariya, south of Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding seven, police said.

ARBIL - A suicide truck bomber killed 14 people and wounded 87 when he blew up his payload near the Kurdish regional government's interior ministry in Arbil, north of Baghdad, local officials said.

* DIYALA PROVINCE - One U.S. soldier was killed and four others wounded by gunfire in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 25 people were found shot in different districts of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked workers who were setting up concrete barriers in the Sunni Arab district of Adhamiya in Baghdad, killing one and wounding two others, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting police commandos wounded three policemen in Palestine Street in northeastern Baghdad, police said.