FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 2:30 p.m. on Thursday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BASRA - Four British soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed in a roadside bomb blast that destroyed their Warrior armoured fighting vehicle in the Iraqi city of Basra on Thursday, the British military said.

* BAGHDAD - Four American soldiers were killed in two separate attacks in and around the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

* BAGHDAD - The U.S. military also said an army helicopter with nine personnel on board went down south of Baghdad. Four personnel were injured.

* MOSUL - Gunmen killed 10 Iraqi soldiers and wounded one in an attack on a military checkpoint near the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, an army officer said.

* BAGHDAD - A Baghdad satellite television station run by Iraq's biggest Sunni political party briefly went off the air on Thursday after a suicide truck bomb attack that killed one person and wounded 10.

* BAQUBA - The bodies of five people were found shot in the head in central Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* WASIT province - The bodies of two women were found killed on the main road between Diyala and Wasit province, police said.