Baghdad: At least 21 people were killed across Iraq on Tuesday, including 10 in a car bombing in eastern Baghdad, security officials said.
Another 25 people were wounded in the explosion of a car bomb parked in the Al-Habibiyah neighborhood.
Elsewhere, 11 Iraqis were killed, two of them children and two employees of the embassy of the United Arab Emirates, security officials said.
Since Monday night police also recovered 18 bodies across Iraq, many of them tortured and riddled with bullets.
The two children were killed when a bomb exploded inside their house in eastern Baghdad.
The bomb also wounded three other members of the family in the capital's al-Jadida neighborhood.
In a brutal ambush, two Iraqis working at the UAE embassy, were gunned down when they were traveling in their car in the upscale Mansour neighbourhood.
In the south of the country, in the Sahl area near the border with Saudi Arabia, two teenage shepherds were killed by an anti-personnel mine.
In Basra a policeman was also killed and another officer wounded when they were attacked by gunmen early on Tuesday.
One civilian was killed by a roadside bomb near Fatiha, north of the oil refining city of Baiji, while two truck drivers from a US base near Dujail were also shot dead by rebels.
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