BAGHDAD, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed and three others injured in two separate attacks in Baghdad on Monday, while the Iraqi police picked up 26 corpses from the streets of the Iraqi capital, an Interior Ministry source said.

    A car bomb, parking in the Kendi Street where dozens of private clinics and shops located in Baghdad's western neighborhood of Harthiyah, went off near a passing police patrol in the afternoon, killing a civilian and wounding three others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    Separately, gunmen opened fire on a police patrol in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Sliekh, killing three policemen, the source said.

    In addition, the source said that the police patrol collected26 unidentified bodies in execution-style in Baghdad's neighborhoods during the past 24 hours.

    Most of the bodies were handcuffed, blindfolded and showing signs of torture with bullet holes riddled in the chest and the head, he said.

    Insurgency, sectarian violence and daily gruesome finding of unidentified corpses continued in the capital despite the U.S. and Iraqi security staged a security plan in the capital since Feb. 14with an aim of putting rampant violence under control.