110 die in Iraq attacks

Suicide bombers killed 50 police recruits in central Iraq and 49 Shiite pilgrims in the south today, a stepped-up attack as politicians work to form a coalition government.

The two-day death toll from insurgent attacks rose to more than 150.

Car bombs and gunmen killed at least six others in Baghdad, raising the toll today to 110.

Attacks yesterday killed 53.

Meanwhile, a roadside bomb south of Karbala hit an American convoy, and five American troops were killed.

The suicide blast today near the Imam Hussein shrine in central Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, killed 49 people and injured 52, said Karbala police Colonel Razaq al-Taie.

In Ramadi, Iraqi officials said 50 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a line of about 1,000 police recruits.

In other violence today, a suicide car bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad, Lieutenant Colonel Thamir al-Gharawi said, and gunmen killed three people in separate incidents.