IRAQ: Guerrillas killed at least eight people and wounded 33 in attacks across Iraq yesterday, police and witnesses said, hours before the National Assembly approved the country's new government.
Gunmen shot dead Maj Gen Mohsen Abed al-Sadah, an assistant to the deputy minister for intelligence in the Interior Ministry, outside his home in Doura, southwest Baghdad. Three gunmen shot dead an Interior Ministry official , Lieut Col Alaa Khalil Ibrahim, as he drove to work, the ministry sources said. A suicide car bomb targeting police headquarters in Tikrit, about 150km (90 miles) north of Baghdad, wounded four civilians and five National Guardsmen. A roadside bomb placed on a motorcycle killed two police officers and wounded five in Samarra, about 100km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
A mortar attack on a garage in Musayyib, about 70km (45 miles) south of the capital, killed four people and wounded 19.