At least 20 people died in attacks, including a car bombing on a busy Baghdad street. According to AFP, the car bomb in the southeastern suburb of Baghdad al-Jadeeda targeting a police patrol killed five people and injured seven others, an interior ministry source said.
In the northern city of Mosul, a family of blacksmiths was targeted when gunmen drove up next to their car and opened fire, killing four and injuring one, local police said.
Elsewhere in the city, a former official of the Baath party also died in a drive-by shooting in front of his house.
Three day laborers on their way to work were also killed when gunmen in a car raked their mini-bus with bullets on the road from Baquba to Khalis, northeast of the capital, police said. East of Baquba, in Balad Ruz, a bomb went off near the courthouse killing a 10-year-old boy and injuring two others.
In Baghdad, Professor Ali Hussein Ali who worked at the Technology University was shot dead. An industry ministry employee was shot dead in a similar incident on the same area.
Three corpses were uncovered in Baghdad: two floating in different locations on the Tigris River, and one of a 10-year-old boy from the neighborhood of Dura in the south, police said. The boy, who was kidnapped on Monday, had been tortured before being shot through the head.
Meanwhile, a high school teacher was killed in a drive-by shooting on his way to work near Kirkuk and gunmen killed a cigarette vendor in a drive-by shooting in the capital.
