A bomb targeting poor Iraqi Shiites lining up for jobs in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City killed at least 31 people and injured more than 50 others, police said.

Followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr trickled in to police stations in a Baghdad slum district to hand in weapons today under a deal seen as a key step toward ending weeks of fighting with US and Iraqi forces in the Shiite militant stronghold.

Followers of renegade Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have agreed to a ceasefire with Iraq’s interim government aimed at ending weeks of fighting in the vast Baghdad slum of Sadr City, a mediator said today.

Negotiators have hammered out the basis for an agreement to end fighting with followers of radical Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq’s interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi said today

Five Iraqi civilians were wounded by US tank fire in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City early today, a hospital official said.