Two Iraqi soldiers were killed Friday and three wounded during clashes with gunmen on the road between Babil and Diwaniyah, south of the capital, Iraqi army Maj. Hassan Ali said.
In central Baghdad, a car loaded with gunmen opened fire at a main hotel housing foreigners and one bystander driving a car was killed in an exchange of gunfire with guards, The AP reported. Another driver in a car with three children was seriously injured.
Also Friday, hundreds of men, women and children crowded the main hospital in Mosul, trying to find and identify the 50 dead and more than 100 wounded in Thursday's blast at a funeral tent jammed with Shiite mourners.
The U.S. Army raised the death toll from 47 to "at least 50" in an announcement in Baghdad. At least 10 of the seriously injured had been taken to one of its military hospitals.
