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The daily Iraq violence report is compiled by McClatchy Newspapers Special Correspondents in Baghdad from police, military and medical reports. This is not a comprehensive list of all violence in Iraq, much of which goes unreported. It's posted without editing as transmitted to McClatchy's Washington Bureau.

Baghdad

Two civilians were wounded by a parked car bomb nearby Shurta tunnel in west Baghdad around 8:00 a.m.

A civilian was killed and four others were injured when a mortar shell hit al Tobchi neighborhood in northwest Baghdad around 9:00 a.m.

Two civilians were killed and eight others were injured by a parked car bomb in al Attar Street in Karrada neighborhood in downtown Baghdad at 11:55 a.m. A building was burnt by the explosion.

Police found three unidentified bodies throughout Baghdad (1 body in Shaab neighborhood, 1 body in Mashtal neighborhood and the last body was found in Atifiyah neighborhood.

Nineveh

On Sunday evening; gunmen opened fire targeting a checkpoint of the Iraqi army in al Hadba neighborhood in downtown Mosul city killing two Iraqi soldiers.