Roadside bomb kills seven Iraqis

A roadside bomb that missed a passing US military convoy killed seven Iraqis and injured one south of Baghdad today, police and hospital sources said.

The victims were travelling in a minibus in Yussifiyah, nine miles south of Baghdad, when the blast occurred, said the director of the town’s hospital, Dawoud al-Taie.

The killings were the latest in a series of attacks by insurgents who are trying to disrupt a landmark national election scheduled for January 30.