Bombs kill 25 in Baghdad violence

At least 25 people have been killed in four separate attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

A bomb in a motorcycle exploded outside a Shi'ite mosque in the Tunis district of the city, killing at least 11 people in a nearby shop.

Four people were also killed by a bomb at a Baghdad bakery and two car bombs were detonated.

One of the car bombings killed five people in Shi'ite east Baghdad and another - aimed at police commandos - left five civilians dead.

Shaken Iraqis stood around examining burnt-out cars and shops where the car bomb aimed at the police detonated.

"The bomb exploded and flipped a minibus. What can we do? We just try to earn a living," said shopkeeper Abu Mohammad.

Elsewhere in Iraq, gunmen killed three men and wounded seven among a crowd of day labourers seeking work on farms north of Baghdad. In Mosul in northern Iraq, four people died in a drive -by shooting.

The United States and Britain are eager to see Iraqi forces show they can handle security on their own so that their own troops can withdraw.

A senior official who accompanied Blair on a visit to Iraq on Monday said Britain hoped all foreign combat troops would leave Iraq within four years.

But the White House has stressed conditions on the ground in Iraq will dictate when US troops can pull out.

- REUTERS