Bombings, drive-by shootings kill 10

AP, AFP, Baghdad
Mortar barrages, roadside bombings and drive-by shootings killed ten Iraqis, officials said yesterday, as Iraq's new government vowed to crack down on the killers of more than 40 people whose bodies were found over the weekend.

Over the weekend the bodies of at least 41 people were found. They included two Iraqi journalists found in their car on a road south of Baghdad, 10 soldiers dumped in the battleground city of Ramadi, two truck drivers lying with nine other bodies in the chicken farm and a judge found nearby.

That violence continued with officials saying Monday that mortar rounds, homemade bombs and drive-by shootings killed 10 people and injured at least 10.

Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and at least four people wounded after a mortar and roadside bomb attack was launched against a fire station in Khan Bani Saad, a town about 15 miles northeast of Baghdad, said police Col. Mudafar Mohammed.