FACTBOX - Security developments in Iraq

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1530 GMT (4:30 p.m. British time) on Thursday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack in eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Another soldier was wounded.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 25 people and wounded 40 at an intersection in a Shi'ite area of southern Baghdad where minibuses pick up and drop off passengers, Iraqi police said.

BAGHDAD - Five people were killed and 11 wounded when a car bomb exploded near a queue of cars waiting for petrol in western Baghdad's Mansour district, police said. 16 cars were burnt in the blast.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi police found the bodies of 20 beheaded men dumped on the banks of the River Tigris in the town of Salman Pak, just south of Baghdad, police said.

BASRA - A roadside bomb killed three British soldiers and seriously wounded another in the southern city of Basra, the British military said. The soldiers were on foot at the time, spokesman Major David Gell said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar attack killed two people and wounded another in the eastern New Baghdad district, police said.

BAGHDAD - Four people were wounded by a roadside bomb in a busy market in northern Baghdad's Shaab district, police said.