Feb 12 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1530 GMT on Monday:
* denotes new or updated item.
*BAGHDAD - At least three bombs exploded in the Shorja
wholesale market in Baghdad, killing at least 71 people and wounding 164, police said.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb at the Bab al-Sharji market in central Baghdad killed at least five people, police said.
KUT - Gunmen killed a primary school guard in central Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad. The guard was a former member of Saddam Hussein's Baath party, police said.
FALAHIYA - Police found the body of a policeman bearing signs of torture in Falahiya, south of Baghdad. The policeman had been kidnapped last week, police said.
BRUSSELS - Two Germans have gone missing in Iraq and may have been kidnapped, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.
BAGHDAD - A bomb killed two people and wounded five others when it exploded in the mainly Shi'ite district of Qahira in northern Baghdad, police said.
GARMA - The bodies of five Iraqi soldiers were found in the small western town of Garma on Sunday, after they were kidnapped by insurgents on Saturday, police said.
BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces found 27 bodies across Baghdad throughout Sunday, police sources said.
MOSUL - Police found the bodies of three people, including a student, in the northern city of Mosul, police said.
BAGHDAD - Insurgents killed one bodyguard for an Interior Ministry employee and wounded another when they attacked her vehicle in a drive-by shooting in eastern Baghdad's Zayouna neighbourhood, police sources said.
SAMAWA - Gunmen killed one policeman in the southern city of Samawa on Sunday, a police source said. Separately, gunmen also killed a former intelligence officer in Saddam's feared secret police.
MOSUL - Six policemen were wounded after clashes between insurgents and police in Mosul, police sources said.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS:
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi High Court ruled that Saddam Hussein's former vice president, Taha Yassin Ramadan, should follow him to the gallows. Ramadan was convicted in November for the killings of 148 Shi'ites in the town of Dujail in the town of Dujail, for which Saddam and two former aides have already been hanged.