At least 16 people have been killed in
The recruits, who had just joined the force, were killed on Monday when the car bomber rammed his car into their bus near Baquba, north of
Thirteen other recruits were wounded.
At least eight more Iraqis were killed by machine gun fire in attacks elsewhere in the country, including children in a car.
And an ambulance driver was shot through the head as he drove to a hospital in
Children killed
The children, two boys aged 7 and 10, died in the drive-by shooting when armed men targeted their parents' car south of
Three more men were shot and killed while travelling in a car just south of
Two Iraqi soldiers died when their patrol was hit by a roadside bomb near Dujail, north of
Another soldier was killed and an officer wounded in a drive-by shooting on the road between Baiji and Tikrit.
Ambassador attacked
Also on Monday, Iraqi police said armed men attacked the convoy of Unal Cevikoz, the Turkish ambassador to
The attack occurred on
And at Rustimiya, south of the capital, eight unidentified bodies were pulled out of a water purification plant. They were believed to have been in the water for over a week.
Attack foiled
Meanwhile, Iraqi soldiers foiled an attack on an army base north of
Colonel Sarhat Qadir said the driver of the booby-trapped car, who had just dropped off a cameraman to film the attack, was shot as he approached the entrance of a military camp.
The car then blew up, killing both the driver and the cameraman who stood nearby. There were no other injuries.
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Masked Iraqi policemen inspect a burned car and a bus in Baquba, 65 km northeast of