BAGHDAD,Iraq - Fifteen policemen and two translators were kidnapped, then killed in Iraq's second-largest city, Basra police said Sunday. Gunmen also attacked an Iraqi government convoy and wounded a bodyguard of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, but the leader was not in the procession, officials said as violence rose in Baghdad after a post-Ramadan lull. A mortar attack elsewhere in the capital killed four Iraqis and wounded four, while other gun assaults left two policemen and a civilian dead and two officers wounded. A kidnapped state television host and his driver also were found slain. North of Baghdad, gunmen ambushed a convoy of Sunni pilgrims bound for Islam's holy city of Mecca and killed at least one person, with attacks across Iraq causing a total of at least 15 deaths. The bodies of 23 people also were found, most believed to be the victims of sectarian reprisal killings.
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer, October 29, 2006
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