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In more violence, 26 people were killed and dozens wounded, many by roadside bombs. A provincial governor survived a car bomb attack on his convoy, while two bodyguards for a member of parliament were killed in an ambush on his motorcade in Baghdad. After a lull in sectarian violence that was unleashed by the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine on February 22, blasts ripped through Sadr City, bastion of a major Shi'ite militia, on Sunday. Officials said 52 were killed and more than 200 wounded. Later, the bodies of four men suspected of involvement in Sunday's blasts had been hung from pylons, residents said. Police said a sign near the bodies, bearing gunshot and torture wounds, read: "These are the traitors". Police said they had retrieved 11 bodies of apparent victims of clandestine gunmen in various spots in mainly Sunni Arab west Baghdad on Monday. After dark, two mortar bombs were fired into the Sunni east Baghdad district of Aadhamiya. The bodies of 15 strangled men, their hands and feet bound and showing signs of torture, were found in an abandoned vehicle in West Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. The bodies were discovered overnight in the Khudra area, not far from where the bodies of 18 men killed in similar fashion were found in a minibus a week ago. The 18 bodies last week had all been garroted and had their hands bound with plastic ties, police and hospital officials said.