At least 17 people have been killed in the north of Iraq people following a series of shootings.
A bomb exploded on a highway between Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, killing three police and four detainees who had been captured during a raid.
Six shootings in Mosul itself have killed seven people, including the brother of a provincial councillor, a health directorate employee and three security forces members.
In north Baghdad, a roadside bomb exploded near bicycle shops in the Sadr City area, killing at least two people and wounding at least seven, while another bombing in the Hurriyah area wounded at least three more people.
And a bomb exploded in a house in the Siniyah area north of Baghdad, killing a policeman and wounding two others.
Iraq has been hit by a year-long surge in violence, driven by widespread discontent among members of the Sunni Arab minority and the bloody civil war in neighbouring Syria.
