Nov 18 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 2230 GMT on Saturday:
* indicates a new or updated item.
BASRA - Three British security guards detained by Iraqi police near Basra on Friday after a clash at a police checkpoint were handed over to British officials, Major General Ali Humadi told Reuters in Basra. He said the men had been guarding a convoy that was stopped by customs police at Zubayr near the Kuwaiti border. In an exchange of fire, a policeman and a Briton were wounded and a British guard was killed, Humadi said. A British military spokesman said on Friday a Briton was wounded and declined comment on any other casualties in the incident.
BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot dead a leading member of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite political party, Ali al-Adhadh of SCIRI, and his wife as they were driving through western Baghdad, police and a party official said.
BAGHDAD - Police found 20 bodies in different areas of western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
BAGHDAD - Insurgents killed one guard and wounded another as they attacked the residence of Iraq's Science and Technology minister in eastern Baghdad's Zayouna district, police said. It was not clear if the minister was present during the attack.
*BAQUBA - Police imposed a curfew in Baquba, north of Baghdad, where Interior Ministry officials said two mortar rounds landed on a residential area, killing two people and wounding five. Residents later reported fierce clashes between U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents to the south of the city. The U.S. military declined comment on residents' reports of two U.S. patrol vehicles being destroyed in separate attacks around the city. Baquba is the scene of frequent sectarian bloodshed.
NASSIRIYA - A roadside bomb exploded in the town of Nassiriya in southern Iraq, killing one child, an Interior Ministry official said.
ISHAQI - Gunmen killed seven people, including Shi'ite tribal leader Asif al-Khazraji, near the town of Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, on Friday, police said. Khazraji was heading to his home town of Dujail.
TIKRIT - A car bomb wounded 20 people near a restaurant in the town of Tikrit on Friday, a police source said. The source said U.S soldiers had initially blown up the car after cordoning off the area but the car's fuel tank blew up as fire-fighters attempted to douse the flames.
NEAR LATIFIYA - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol, killing one civilian and wounding two policemen near the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
KUT - Gunmen attacked alcohol sellers in Kut, 170 km (105 miles) south of Baghdad, wounding a nine-year-old passer-by, police said.
KUT - Gunmen killed Sultan Salman, a tribal leader, in the town of Muwafaqiya, 25 km (15 miles) south of Kut, police said.
MOSUL - A suicide car bomber wounded seven Iraqi soldiers when he attacked an army checkpoint on the northern outskirts of Mosul, an ethnically mixed city in northern Iraq, an army major said.
FALLUJA - Gunmen killed Omar al-Falahi, a mosque preacher in Falluja, on Friday, policeman Mahmoud Abdullah said. Mosque preachers in the area have been killed by extreme Sunni militants after they have called for calm and unity.