By IINA
Baghdad : A roadside bomb has killed at least 16 people traveling on a bus in southern Iraq. At least 22 people were also wounded in the attack. The civilian passenger bus was traveling on the Basra-Nasiriya road some 80 km south of Nasiriya, police said. The attack came a day after eight US soldiers and an interpreter were killed in two separate incidents, the US military said.
One attack took place in Diyala province, killing three soldiers and an interpreter, while five other soldiers were killed in a suicide attack in Baghdad.
Nasser al-Jabery, provincial head of police operations in Nasiriya, said the bus was carrying pilgrims from the Shia holy city of Najaf to Basra. Earlier yesterday, police said four policemen, four insurgents and a civilian had been killed in a gun battle in the northern city of Mosul.