Eight killed in new wave of violence

Insurgents used bomb attacks and a drive-by shooting to kill at least eight Iraqis and wound 15 others today, including a police officer and his four children who died when an explosion set fire to their vehicle in northern Iraq, officials said.

In one attack, a suicide car bomber rammed into a US military convoy at in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding 13, said police Capt Farhad Talabani.