Iraqi police on Tuesday found bodies of 14 people killed in the execution style near a town south of Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry source said.

"Our police patrols found 14 bodies of men outside the town of Mahmudiyah," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The bodies, showing signs of torture, were bound and with bullet holes in the heads and chests, the source said.

Mahmudiyah, some 30 km south of Baghdad, was the scene of a car bombing and gunmen attacks on Monday with more than 50 people killed and dozens wounded.

Earlier in the day, a suicide car bomber attacked a crowd of construction workers near a holy Shiite mosque in Kufa town, killing 57 people and wounding 93 others.

Kufa, some 150 km south of Baghdad, is a stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Bodies are found across Iraq almost on a daily basis despite efforts by the Iraqi government to achieve national reconciliation and stem out violence.

Source: Xinhua