Two people killed in bomb attacks in Baghdad

Two people were killed and four others wounded in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry source said.

The source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity that mortar rounds landed on residential area in the Sadr City neighborhood earlier in the day, killing two people and damaged several houses.

He said that a roadside bomb went off later at the busy Taiyran Square in Bab al-Sharji area in central Baghdad, wounding two civilians.

Two others were wounded in another roadside bomb which blew up under a drinking water pipeline in an entrance of the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, the source said.

The blast badly damaged the pipe, which provide drinking water to Sadr City, he added.

Meanwhile, the police reported that three bodies of men showing signs of torture were found in the Hai al-Amil district in southwestern Baghdad.

On Tuesday, up to 40 bodies were found in different parts of Baghdad. The bullet-riddled bodies also showed signs of torture before they were killed.

Violence rages in Iraq as gruesome sectarian killings, car bombings, roadside bombs cause dozens of Iraqi casualties daily.

Source: Xinhua