Over 50 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in attacks across Baghdad, the Iraqi interior ministry reported on Sunday. In the worst attack, car bombings and mortar attacks rocked a Shiite slum in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding 84, police said.
Two bombs exploded at the Al-Hay market shortly before sundown and were followed by four mortar rounds, two that slammed into the Keyara district and two more at Hamza square, police Lt. Colonel Hasan Jellob said.
Earlier, a roadside bomb went off Sunday morning in a west Baghdad street, killing at least six people and wounding 12, said police Lt. There Mahmoud, according to the AP. Three policemen were among the dead and three were wounded.
Another blast near the Mustansiriyah University in east Baghdad injured five policemen, said police 1st Lt. Mohammed Khaiyoon.
Drive-by shooters fired on a car in the western Biyaqa neighborhood, killing its three occupants. In addition, gunmen in a speeding car fired into a crowd of day laborers in Amariyah, injuring four workers, said police Lt. Thayer Mahmoud.
In the western Jamiah neighborhood, a rocket hit a house, killing one occupant and wounding two others, police Lt. Col. Hassan Chaloob said.
On Saturday, at least six more people, including an Iraqi TV journalist and a human-rights activist, died in drive-by shootings. Two bombs targeted U.S. convoys in Baghdad and north of the capital, have wounded one soldier.
U.S. and Iraqi forces also conducted a series of raids, nabbing 20 suspected "insurgents" and seizing a large weapons cache -- including artillery shells, mortar rounds, antitank missiles and homemade bombs.
The U.S. command in Baghdad confirmed also that the body of 54-year-old Tom Fox was picked up by American forces on Thursday evening. Falah al-Mohammedawi, an official with Iraq's Interior Ministry, said Fox was found with his hands tied, gunshot wounds to his head and chest, and signs of torture.
