ATTACKERS detonated a car bomb near police and government buildings in the western city of Haditha yesterday, killing 10 Iraqis.

Gunmen assassinated a provincial governor yesterday, hours after a suicide attacker detonated a massive car bomb that killed at least 10 and wounded 40, in the worst attack in Baghdad since the United States handed power to an Iraqi interim government on June 28.

INSURGENTS yesterday killed an Iraqi provincial governor and two of his guards in a grenade attack on his convoy.