Attacks in Iraq killed 22 people, including six shot dead when gunmen stormed a house where a corpse was being ritually washed ahead of a funeral.
The violence in central and northern Iraq on Tuesday, including an area known as the "Triangle of Death", is the latest in a surge in unrest that has left more than 4000 people dead so far this year.
Authorities have sought to tackle the country's worst bloodshed since 2008 with wide-ranging operations targeting militants as well as tight traffic measures in the capital, but attacks have continued to rock many cities.
In Tuesday's deadliest violence, gunmen stormed a house in the town of Yusufiyah and killed six people, including two women, as they were ritually cleansing the body of a Sunni Arab man ahead of his funeral, a police officer and a doctor at a nearby hospital said.
Also among the victims was the dead man's son.
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Two more people were killed and seven others wounded in the nearby town of Latifiyah by a roadside bombing near a cafe.
At Nahrawan in the same region, an explosive device went off near a football field, killing two youths who were playing football.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, three separate car bombs near Baquba, north of Baghdad and capital of restive Diyala province, left 10 people dead and dozens wounded, security and medical officials said.
And in the northern city of Mosul, two people, including a policeman, were gunned down by militants, while three bodies were found in northern Iraq as well.
In a failed attempt to assassinate the governor of northern Salaheddin province, gunmen opened fire on his convoy, wounding five of his guards.
