The bodies of 13 men, apparently victims of sectarian death squads, were found scattered across the eastern part of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. The bullet-riddled bodies all showed signs of torture and had their hands and feet bound, police Capt. Mohamed Abdul-Ghani said.
The men, who were in their 30s, had been dumped around several religiously mixed neighborhoods, Abdul-Ghani said.
Meanwhile, Iraqi fighters have destroyed a police station in a bold attack with mortars and a car bomb, the prime minister's office said, according to AFP.
The assault was launched with the detonation of a booby-trapped car near the police post in Jorf al-Sakhr, 60 kilometers south of Baghdad. The explosion and a subsequent mortar barrage killed three officers and injured several more, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said in a statement.
In the nearby town of Latifiyah, a roadside bomb went off next to a truck belonging to the finance ministry and killed one man and wounded five others.
Iraqi police also reported a pair of bomb attacks against a US military convoy.
In Baghdad, a motorcycle-riding suicide bomber drove through central Baghdad's Andalus square into the headquarters of the Communist Party, killing five people and wounding 15, medics at the nearby Ibn al-Nafis hospital said.
A car bomb also exploded in the central neighborhood of Zayuna, wounding three people and attracting a mix of police and bystanders who then fell prey to a second explosion. Two civilians were killed in that blast and 12 others, including eight policemen, were injured, medics said.
East of Baghdad, in Diyalah province, a roadside bomb blew up an ambulance rushing to the hospital killing the driver and the medic inside on the way to the provincial capital of Baquba. Another civilian died of wounds received in another bomb attack while six Iraqis, including two policemen, were injured in a gunfight with insurgents in the restive town of Muqdadiyah.
