At least 13 Iraqi police recruits have been killed and at least 24 wounded after fighters ambushed a bus convoy. A senior police official said the policemen were attacked on Sunday as they travelled home to Baghdad from a training centre that had come under fire the previous day. Major-General Ghassan al-Bawi, Diyala province police chief, said: "They were being brought home to Baghdad from the training centre for a new emergency response brigade when insurgents set up a roadblock to stop them and opened fire."
Baquba, 65km north of Baghdad, is an area with a mixed population of Shia and Sunni Arabs and it has seen relentless bloodshed in recent months. |