CAR bombs rocked Iraq’s two holiest Shi’ite cities yesterday, killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 120.

Car bombs rocked Iraq’s two holiest Shiite cities today, killing at least 60 people and wounding more than 120, while in Baghdad dozens of gunmen carried out a brazen ambush on car, killing three employees of the organisation running next month’s elections.

Najaf Governor Adnan al-Zurufi has declared a 24-hour cease-fire from the time Grand Ayatollah Ali Husseini Al-Sistani arrived in Najaf to give the militants a chance to decide whether to accept the cleric's peace plan.

Four Iraqis were killed and 13 injured as Shiite gunmen seized an Iraqi police station in the holy city of Najaf and held it for two hours today.