Governor gunned down in convoy ambush

Gunmen assassinated a provincial governor yesterday, hours after a suicide attacker detonated a massive car bomb that killed at least 10 and wounded 40, in the worst attack in Baghdad since the United States handed power to an Iraqi interim government on June 28.

Meanwhile, a Saudi company employing an Egyptian driver held hostage by militants in Iraq said it would stop work in the country to win the captive’s freedom.