BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least 22 people died and scores were wounded Sunday in a wave of new violence in Iraq, including a suicide bombing and a deadly armed robbery. Four bodies were also found.
Unknown gunmen killed two security guards as they were on their way to deposit money at the Al-Rasheed bank in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Mansoor, stealing $850,000 from two Ministry of Finance Cars, Baghdad emergency police said.
Nine others were wounded in the incident about 1:30 p.m. Sunday, in which the gunmen opened fire on the guards from five cars, authorities said.
It was only the latest occurrence in a violent day. Earlier, 10 Iraqi militiamen were killed early Sunday in clashes with U.S. forces in the Sadr City section of Baghdad, Iraqi police sources told CNN.
The clashes apparently broke out between 2 and 4 a.m. Sunday (6 and 8 p.m. Saturday EDT) between U.S. troops and the Mehdi Army over U.S. detention of a number of the organization's members, police said.
As of 4 a.m., U.S. forces retreated, police said, and calm was restored.
A spokesman for the U.S. military brigade in charge of Sadr City said it was investigating reports of clashes between its soldiers and gunmen in Sadr City, but could provide no further details.
In the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Baghdad al-Jadeeda, nine people were killed -- four police commandos and five civilians -- when a suicide car bomber detonated at about 11:30 a.m. Sunday, Baghdad emergency police said.
Twelve people, mostly civilians, were wounded when the detonation took place under a highway bridge in the al-Ghadeer district. The bomb targeted an Iraqi police patrol.
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