Two suicide car-bombings, along with a string of other attacks in and around Baghdad today, have left 14 people dead, police and army officials said.

Ten people were killed in a string of separate attacks in and around Baghdad today, including a suicide car bombing at an army checkpoint, police said.

Hundreds of vendors have spread out across the Iraqi capital Baghdad to sell goods looted as Saddam Hussein’s regime collapsed.

GANGS of looters, many of them armed, roamed the streets of Baghdad yesterday, ransacking offices and government buildings as US troops looked on and breaking into the houses of Saddam Hussein’s top aides.