Insurgents kill 12 in Iraq attacks

A SUICIDE car bomber targeted a busload of police recruits north of Baghdad yesterday, killing seven people, and gunmen in the capital killed five workers, police said.

Iraq's Kurdish president met with the Shi'ite prime minister in northern Iraq for talks on the formation of the country's next government.

At least three police recruits were killed by the car bomb in Baqouba, and another four people also died, although officials couldn't immediately say whether they were recruits or civilians.