Two Iraqi women killed in minibus attack

GUNMEN fired on a minibus yesterday, killing two Iraqi women who worked for the US-led coalition, and assailants in a southern city killed a coalition translator and critically injured another, police and witnesses said.

A US soldier, meanwhile, was killed and another was wounded in a roadside bombing Saturday night, the military said.

The attackers who fired on the bus in Baghdad also detonated explosives in it, killing the driver and injuring another woman. Lt Ali Omran of al-Dora police station said the women were working for the Americans, but he did not specify their jobs.