BAGHDAD - The corpses of an Iraqi soldier and an Iraqi businessman working with the Americans were discovered on Friday, while the US military said three civilians were killed in a car crash with a US convoy.
In Yusiffiya, 25 kilometres (15 miles) south of Baghdad, the body of an Iraqi soldier was discovered on Friday.
"The body bore traces of torture," said Iraqi captain Jeder al-Akri.
The soldier had been dead for 10 days, a doctor said.
In fresh violence north of the capital, a soldier was kidnapped in Tuz, police said, while a bomb wounded three people near the refinery town of Baiji.
The body of a businessman working with the Americans was found on Friday near Dujail, 70 kilometres (45 miles) north of Baghdad, police captain Hussam Ali said. The man had been shot.
In Kirkuk, a policeman was killed in a roadside bomb attack on the southern end of the oil-rich city, said lieutenant colonel Kattab Arif.
He said the attack happened when two masked men threw a bag on a road leading to a police academy in the area, prompting a police patrol to go check it before the explosives-rigged bag was detonated by remote control.
Separately, police in Kirkuk said they detained two Syrians suspected of killing a police chief two days ago and carrying out other attacks against police.
Meanwhile, three Iraqi civilians were killed when their car tried to swerve out of the way of a US military convoy and crashed into a contractor`s car traveling with the US army near Tikrit, 180 kilometres (110 miles) from Baghdad, the military said.
And south of Baghdad, a truck driver was shot dead Thursday by highway robbers.
"Armed men killed Thursday a truck driver carrying goods for the ministry of trade," said a police officer in Nassiriyah, 375 kilometres (230 miles) south of Baghdad.
The truck was coming from the southern city of Basra and was ambushed in the region of Abu Gar not far from Nassiriyah, the officer said.
"After killing the truck driver, the attackers threw out the body and drove off with the car and its merchandise."
03/18/2005 18:25 GMT