FACTBOX - Security developments in Iraq, March 10

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2:30 p.m. British time on Monday.

* denotes new or updated items.

* BAGHDAD - Five U.S. soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a bomb blast in central Baghdad's Mansour district, the U.S. military said. An Iraqi interpreter was also wounded. Iraqi police said a suicide bomber walked up to the U.S. foot patrol and detonated a vest packed with explosives. Another police official said nine Iraqis were wounded.

* BAGHDAD - One person was killed and four wounded by a bomb in a parked car near a hospital in Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers killed five suspected al Qaeda fighters and detained 19 others during operations in central Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two people in eastern Baghdad's Zayouna district, police said.

* MOSUL - Two gunmen were killed and two others wounded during clashes with Iraqi police in Ba'aj village in northwestern Iraq near the Syrian border, the Ba'aj mayor said.

BASRA - Gunmen killed Dr. Khalid Nasir al-Mayyahi, the director of a training hospital in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, in a drive-by shooting outside the hospital, police said.

KANAAN - A female suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed Thaer Saggban al-Karkhi, a Sunni Arab tribal sheikh, and three others including his niece in the town of Kanaan near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Karkhi was head of a local neighbourhood security unit. Two of his bodyguards were wounded.