Bombs kill 7 south of Baghdad, 6 in Tikrit
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-01-11 16:55

A roadside bomb that missed a passing U.S. military convoy killed seven Iraqis and wounded one south of Baghdad Tuesday, police and hospital sources said, while a suicide car bomb at police headquarters in Tikrit killed six.

The victims in the roadside bomb explosion were traveling in a minibus in Yussifiyah, 10 miles south of Baghdad, when the blast occurred, said the director of the town's hospital, Dawoud al-Taie.

An Iraqi woman sits next to her husband who was injured in a suicide car bomb attack, which targeted the police station where he works in the southern city of Basra, January 10, 2005. At least one suicide bomber was killed and seven people, four of then policemen, were wounded in two separate car bombings in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Monday, hospital sources and eyewitnesses said. Picture taken January 10, 2005. [Reuters]

Little other information was known about the Tikrit blast. Police sources said that six were killed and 12 wounded.

The killings were the latest in a series of attacks by insurgents who are trying to disrupt a landmark Jan. 30 national election. The last two days have seen a new surge of attacks, with four roadside bombings and suicide attacks on Iraqi and American forces on Monday.

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