Ten killed as seven car bombs explode in Iraq
Elsewhere, seven car bombs exploded across the Iraqi capital Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 10 people and wounding dozens, as politicians met to try to finalise a new cabinet.
In Baghdad and other areas, four roadside bombs, six drive-by shootings and a mortar round killed a total of 15 Iraqis, police said.
The violence underlines the challenges Prime Minister-designate Jawad al-Maliki faces as he begins the tough task of assembling a Cabinet out of Iraq's Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurdish parties.
Baghdad's first car bomb exploded during morning rush hour, killing five people.
It blew up on a major street in the centre of the city near the Tigris river, close to a complex of government buildings, a hospital and a bus station.
Two hours later, bombs hidden in two cars parked near Mustansiriya University in eastern Baghdad exploded, killing five civilians, including a 10-year-old boy.
The attacks wounded 77 people.
Police in Abu Ghraib, just outside Baghdad, found a small truck containing the bodies of 15 men who had been tortured in captivity.
Two other corpses were discovered in Dora in south-west Baghdad and one appeared to have been hanged.
Three bodies were found in the northern city of Mosul, including that of a university student who had been kidnapped hours earlier, police said.
Sunni Arabs say Shi'ite militias have infiltrated the Interior Ministry controlled by the biggest Shi'ite party and used death squads to kill Sunnis.
But the killings have gone both ways.
Police said the bodies of six Shi'ites were found yesterday in the mainly Sunni district of Azamiyah in Baghdad, their hands and legs bound and their bodies showing signs of torture.
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