Bomb kills 35 in attack on army volunteers

A SUICIDE bomber rammed his four-wheel drive vehicle packed with artillery shells into a crowd of Iraqi army volunteers in Baghdad yesterday, and the massive explosion that followed killed at least 35 people and wounded 138.

Another car bomb north of the capital killed six members of the Iraqi security forces.

The Baghdad blast, the deadliest attack since a bombing outside the same recruiting centre in February, was part of a surge of violence on coalition forces and their Iraqi allies ahead of the transfer of sovereignty on June 30.