Iraq police find 65 tortured bodies

Police in Baghdad found the bodies yesterday of 65 men who had been tortured and shot before being dumped around the city.

The death toll for the day rose further when two car bombs exploded and insurgents mounted two mortar attacks, killing at least 32 people and injuring dozens of others.

Two American soldiers have also been killed this week, one on Monday from enemy action in the restive Anbar province, the other on Tuesday by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad, the US military command reported yesterday.

Police said 60 of the bodies were found overnight scattered around Baghdad, with the majority dumped in predominantly Sunni neighbourhoods.

In the capital, a car bomb near the traffic police building killed at least 19 people and wounded 62.