A SUICIDE bomber lured a crowd of Shi’ite Muslim day labourers to his minivan and blew it up in Baghdad yesterday, killing 114 people in the bloodiest of a wave of attacks which killed more than 150 across the capital.

THE bodies of 18 young Iraqi Shi’ites taken off a bus and executed last month while seeking work at a US base have been found in a field near the volatile city of Mosul, police yesterday said.

Insurgents have executed 18 Iraqi workers who were seeking jobs at a US base north of Baghdad, police said today.