At least 80 people, mostly soldiers and police, have been killed in a wave of attacks in Iraq.
More more were wounded in the raids on Monday.
Most of the attacks were on security checkpoints by gunmen in speeding cars. The others were bombings at markets and a textile factory.
At least seven drive-by attacks were reported during a two-hour period in Baghdad.
Two bombs also went off in the city of Falluja. They were followed by another double suicide bombing on a market in a town just south of Baghdad.
Later, a bomb blew up in a busy market in Basra.
The BBC reports the shootings were carried out by men with automatic weapons fitted with silencers.
