Gunmen killed two men in an oil tanker truck, two construction workers and a government employee on Sunday.
In Sunday's worst attack, a roadside bomb destroyed one of several oil tanker trucks driving on a main road in south Baghdad, killing the two men inside, said police Capt. Ibrahim Abdul-Ridha. According to the AP, four other civilians in the area were injured.
Elsewhere, U.S. troops backed by helicopters and a jet attacked gunmen planning a nighttime ambush near an American base north of Baghdad, killing six and wounding and capturing five, the U.S. command said Sunday.
Three separate shooting attacks in Baghdad killed two construction workers and wounded three, seriously wounded a shopkeeper in the Dora district and hit a car carrying Cabinet adviser Ghalib Abdul Mahdi to work, wounding him and killing his driver, police said.
In Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed a farmer on his tractor and seriously wounded two other civilians, said police Capt. Laith Mohammed.
On Saturday night, the corpses of three handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqis were located in the Iraqi capital, and police said an Iraqi soldier and the brother of a policeman died.
These latest deaths came as a new Pentagon report estimated that 26,000 Iraqis have been killed or wounded in attacks since Jan. 1, 2004. In the most recent period, from Aug. 29 to Sept. 16, there were an estimated 64 Iraqi casualties each day. According to the report, Iraqi civilians and security forces were killed and wounded at a rate of about 26 a day early in 2004 and at a rate of about 40 a day later that year. The rate increased in 2005 to about 51 a day, and by the end of August it had jumped to about 63 a day.
