FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, Aug 29

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 8:30 p.m. British time on Wednesday:

* denotes new or updated item:

KERBALA - Authorities said they had restored order and imposed a curfew after clashes in the southern city of Kerbala killed 52 people and sent hundreds of thousands of pilgrims fleeing an annual Shi'ite ritual.

* BAGHDAD - Eleven bodies were found in various parts of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.

* KIRKUK - A car bomb killed three civilians and wounded seven others when it exploded in the Dumez district of the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* KIRKUK - Two people were killed and one wounded in a mortar attack on a residential area in Kirkuk, police said.

* DIWANIYAH - Two bodyguards of a government official in the southern city of Diwaniyah were killed by roadside bomb targeting their convoy, police said.

NAJAF - Gunmen killed one policeman in a drive-by shooting north of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, a security source said.

KIRKUK - One American soldier died of wounds suffered during a combat operations in vicinity of Kirkuk on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.