A suicide bomber in a minibus lured labourers to his vehicle with promises of a job this morning then blew it up, killing 22 people and wounding 44 in the mainly Shiite southern Iraqi city of Hillah.

Two suicide bombers today killed 20 police officers and wounded another 96 in Hillah, south of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.

Two suicide bombers set off blasts that killed at least 10 police officers and injured 25 outside a police station to the south of Baghdad today.