A suicide car bomber killed at least 10 Iraqis in an attack near government buildings in Baghdad on Monday, police said, raising this week's death toll from violence in and around the Iraqi capital to 36. The suicide car bomb targeted a police checkpoint guarding Iraq's oil ministry, irrigation ministry and national Police Academy, and a private bus carrying 24 oil ministry employees and their driver, said police Capt. Nabil Abdel Qadir. Seven policemen died and three people aboard the bus, Qadir said. Thirty-six Iraqis were wounded, 14 of them policemen and 22 of them bus passengers, he was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.
