(September 10, 2006)--Six more bodies have turned up in Iraq, fished out of the Tigris River and taken to a hospital morgue Sunday in the city of Kut.

A spokesman for morgue says all bore signs of torture.

They had each been blindfolded and their hands and feet were tied.

Thousands of Iraqis have died in a similar matter, in addition to the many killed by bombs.

In Central Baghdad Sunday, a roadside bomb explosion near a mobile phone shop killed at least five people and wounded 17.

And the US-led coalition says in a statement that an Iraqi court has convicted and sentenced 38 more people accused of various acts of insurgency.

The crimes range from murder to document forgery.

The sentences range from life to six months in prison.

The statement says 1,252 people have now been convicted of insurgency.

Meanwhile Iraqi officials say three members of al-Qaeda in Iraq have been killed in a raid.

The Interior Ministry says the three were killed by security forces who raided a building in central Baghdad, sparking an hour-long gunfight. A fourth suspect managed to flee.

Baghdad's police commander says documents found in the raid indicate the suspects had been involved in a series of recent attacks in which buildings had been rigged with explosives.

Police say the raid turned up explosives and explosive belts, anti-tank mines, electrical triggers, hand grenades, silencers and videos detailing how to detonate a bomb by remote control.

They say one of the rooms in the building had been disguised as a shop selling mobile phones.

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