A suicide car bomber killed at least 18 and injured dozens more in an attack on a police crime lab in central Baghdad today.

A STRING of bombings killed nine people and wounded at least 33 others in Iraq yesterday, including a senior oil ministry official, authorities said.

TWO television journalists were killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb yesterday.

A roadside bomb ripped through a bus today killing 10 people working for an organisation opposed to the Iranian regime, police said.

A pair of bombs ripped through central Baghdad just after dawn today, killing three people and injuring 21, police said.