In pictures: Week of violence in Iraq

1 of 7 Scores of Iraqis have died in a week of attacks. Correspondents say violence is returning to pre-election levels.

2 of 7 On Monday, bomb attacks on police left a total of 25 dead in the cities of Mosul and Baquba.

3 of 7 At least 21 were killed on Tuesday in a suicide blast at an army recruitment centre in Baghdad.

4 of 7 On Wednesday a reporter for a US-funded Arabic TV station was gunned down in Iraq's second city of Basra.

5 of 7 Three people died in Thursday's early morning car bomb in Baghdad, as at least eight Iraqi police were killed in a shootout south of the capital.

6 of 7 Relatives of a car bomb victim grieve at a hospital in Baquba following Friday's attack at a mosque in Balad Ruz.

7 of 7 Saturday saw a second assassination in Basra as gunmen kill Judge Taha al-Amiri his way to work.