110 bodies found dumped in Baghdad

Baghdad(Iraq): Iraqi security forces have found 110 bodies dumped across the capital in the past two days, all killed in a manner authorities attribute to Sunni-Shiite sectarian strife.

Baghdad police said 60 bullet-riddled bodies were found around Baghdad between Monday morning and Tuesday morning, and another 50 were found later in the day on Tuesday.

Some of the bodies showed signs of torture and had their hands and feet bound. The bodies could not be immediately identified.

Elsewhere in Iraq, 15 people were killed in attacks in or near Baghdad, and 11 insurgents were slain by coalition and Iraqi troops in the southern city of Diwaniya.

A string of deadly attacks

Ten civilians were killed on Tuesday when a bomb was detonated under a car in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Dora, emergency police said. The blast -- which occurred at 1300 (hrs) -- wounded four other people.

The bombing was near the Hatem Al-Sa'adoun Mosque. Police said the apparent target was a bakery.

In another incident in the same neighborhood, a roadside bomb targeting a US-Iraqi patrol killed a policeman and wounded four others.

In the mainly Sunni Seleikh neighborhood of northern Baghdad, a suicide car bomber slammed into an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing two Iraqi soldiers and wounding seven, police said.

And in Rashid, a town about 16 miles (25 kilometers) south of the capital, a roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi police patrol, killing two officers and wounding three others, police said.

Farther south in the Shiite-dominated city of Diwaniya, coalition and Iraqi forces clashed with insurgents near the Al Qaim Mosque on Monday evening, leaving 11 insurgents dead, a US military statement said.

The gun battle occurred when a joint coalition and Iraqi unit on routine patrol came under fire while speaking with police at a checkpoint near the mosque.

The enemy fighters, which the military labeled as terrorists, were dressed as Iraqi police officers, and a pickup truck with Iraqi police markings was heavily damaged, the military said.

Diwaniya -- located in the southern province of Qadisiya -- has a dominant Shiite presence, and it has been the scene of recent hostilities between coalition forces and the Mehdi Army militia loyal to anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

On Saturday night, a raid by the US military left 30 insurgents from the Mehdi Army militia dead; in late August, a pitched battle between his fighters and government troops left more than 60 people dead.