(KUNA) -- Mortar attack on southern Baghdad has led to the killing and wounding of 24 people on Tuesday, the Iraqi police reported. A police source said in a statement that two people were killed and 22 others wounded when mortar shells fell on a residential building in the area of Doura south of Baghdad. Earlier in the day, Iraqi police said that eight people were killed while at the same time Iraqi security forces killed and arrested 17 armed men when also the discovery of unknown dead bodies continues in Baghdad.