BAGHDAD, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed 10 people in southern Baghdad on Tuesday, police said, as insurgents kept up the pressure despite a major U.S.-backed security crackdown aimed at stabilising the Iraqi capital.
The first car bomb exploded near a fuel station in the district of Saidiya, killing five people and wounding 11 more, police said. Another police source, however, said three were killed and 12 wounded in that attack.
Another car bomb exploded in Doura, in the south of Baghdad, killing five people and wounding seven at a vegetable market.
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BAGHDAD, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Twenty unidentified bodies were found in Baghdad on Monday, Iraqi police said on Tuesday, a spike in the daily death toll after a marked reduction since the start of a major security crackdown.
Most such bodies are victims of sectarian death squads and many are found tortured, bound and shot dead. The figure from the morgue does not include victims of bomb attacks or others who are taken to hospitals and identified there.
The U.S.-led offensive against militants had sharply reduced the number of death squad killings in Baghdad since the operation formally began a week ago.
Before the crackdown, police had been finding 40 to 50 bodies a day. On Sunday, they found just three bodies and in previous days around five each day.
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