A bomb killed 19 people and wounded 58 in a Shiite district of Baghdad today as parliament prepared to inaugurate the country’s first fully constitutional government since the collapse of Saddam Hussein three years ago.

An indefinite curfew was imposed Wednesday for all vehicle and pedestrian traffic in the central Iraqi city of Samarra, following an attack on a US convoy in the area, the US military and Iraqi police said.

The bodies of 13 blindfolded and bound men were found shot multiple times in the head execution style in Baghdad’s Sadr City today.

A seven-year-old boy has been killed in an explosion at a railway station in the southern Thai city of Hat Yai.