A car bomb targeting a police patrol in Baghdad killed two people and wounded 13 earlier today, police said.

Iraqi police today found the blindfolded bodies of three people dumped in two separate parts of eastern Baghdad, while the US military command in Iraq said two American soldiers had been killed.

Car bombs and drive-by shootings today killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens of others in a series of attacks around central Iraq, officials said.

A bomb exploded today in a crowd of day labourers in central Baghdad, killing eight people and wounding 28, police said.

A car bomb exploded today in a crowd of day labourers waiting for jobs in central Baghdad, killing eight people and injuring 28.

A bomb struck a market in eastern Baghdad today, killing five people and wounding 15.

Two car bombs exploded nearly simultaneously in a Shiite area of Baghdad today, killing at least seven people and wounding 17.

Two car bombs rocked northern Baghdad neighbourhoods today while another struck a Shiite holy city, in attacks that left at least 16 dead and 49 wounded, police and provincial officials said.

Three explosions occurred outside the heavily guarded Green Zone in Baghdad today, killing seven Iraqi civilians and wounding eight others, a US official said.