Car bombs and shootings kill at least 10 in Iraq

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.

The attacks came after a day that was bloody even by Baghdad’s standards. Car bombs, mortars and other attacks killed at least 39 people and wounded dozens yesterday.

Police also uncovered the tortured bodies of 65 men dumped in and around the capital.

In the first attack, a car bomb targeting a police patrol in a Shiite neighbourhood of northern Baghdad missed, killing a civilian and wounding 13 others, police said.

Another car bomb blew up near the government’s passport office in central Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 22.

The injured included four police officers, said police Lieutenant Bilal Ali.

Gunmen in Baqouba, 35 miles north-east of Baghdad, killed two police officers in a drive-by shooting.

Another group of gunmen shot and killed three people in Ghazaniya, just north of Baqouba.