Gunmen lined up 14 employees working at an electronics trading company in Baghdad this morning and shot them all, killing eight and wounding six, police said.

Insurgents used bomb attacks and a drive-by shooting to kill at least eight Iraqis and wound 15 others today, including a police officer and his four children who died when an explosion set fire to their vehicle in northern Iraq, officials said.

An explosion targeted a US convoy today in southern Baghdad, leaving a US vehicle in flames, while gunmen south of the capital assassinated a member of the Babil provincial council.