At least 29 people have been confirmed dead in incidents in Iraq today.
11 were killed and 20 injured in twin attacks targeting the home of an officer in an Iraqi special force unit in Samarra, north of Baghdad.
The first attack happened at 1pm Irishn time when a suicide car bomber blew himself up outside the officer's home in eastern Samarra.
Shortly after, a roadside bomb went off, destroyed four homes nearby.
The corpses of eight policemen and five poultry vendors who died in separate attacks south and west of Baghdad were found.
The vendors' bodies were found bound and with bullet holes in their heads near a river in the area south of Baghdad.
The men, aged 20 to 45, went missing two days ago after leaving Baghdad in three minibuses to buy poultry in Yussifiyah.
The policemen, who had been manning a checkpoint on the road between the western city of Ramadi and the Syrian border, were found after being kidnapped yesterday.
In the capital, the body of Fadel Awda al-Luaibi, a member of the municipal council in Baghdad's Sadr City, was found after he had been kidnapped by gunmen overnight from his home in the area.
In other violence, a civilian was killed and four injured in clashes between US and Iraqi forces and insurgents in Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq after a roadside bomb attack against a US military convoy.
And a firefight between police commandos and an unknown number of attackers in western Baghdad left two policemen dead and three injured early today.
