FACTBOX - Security developments in Iraq on April 4

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 4:30 p.m. British time on Wednesday:

* denotes a new or updated item.

* KERBALA - Eighteen goat-herders from an extended Shi'ite family were kidnapped on Tuesday near the holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said.

NEAR HAWIJA - Gunmen killed 11 employees of an electricity station in an ambush on their vehicle near the town of Hawija, 70 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed a police major and wounded a civilian in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting the motorcade of the head of police in Mosul, Major General Wathiq al-Hamadani, wounded two of his guards, police said. Hamadani was not harmed.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi army arrested 59 insurgents during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces captured nine suspected insurgents during operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq and foreign fighter facilitators in Mosul, Habaniya and Garma, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 10 people were found shot in different districts of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.