FACTBOX - Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 11:30 a.m. British time on Thursday.

NEAR MUQDADIYA - Sixteen dead bodies were found on Thursday in a ditch in the a town north of Baghdad in Iraq's most violent province Diyala, police said. Twelve had been beheaded.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked the dean of Baghdad's University of Technology as he drove in northern Baghdad, wounding him seriously. His daughter was also hurt, police said.

HAWIJA - A body with gunshot wounds was found inside an unfinished house in central Hawija, 45 miles southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - Five bodies were found in different districts in Baghdad, on Wednesday, police said.

SAMARRA - Iraqi police killed five gunmen believed to be Arabs from foreign countries on Wednesday in eastern Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

NEAR BAGHDAD - A suspected member of al Qaeda was killed by U.S. forces on Monday during a gunbattle near Adwaniya, 20 km (12 miles) Southeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a contractor working with U.S. forces in a drive-by shooting in Mansour district of western Baghdad, police said.

HIT - A suicide car bomb targeted the convoy of the mayor of Hit, a town in the western province of Anbar, killing two of his bodyguards and wounding six others including three civilians on Wednesday, police said.