Bombing, Shootings Leave Nine Dead In Iraq

Iraqi soldiers guard an ambulance as it leaves the site of an attack in April (epa) May 23, 2006 -- Five people were today killed in a car bomb aimed at a police patrol in southeastern Baghdad.

In separate attacks, three workers were killed in a drive-by shooting attack near Ba'qubah, and, near the northern city of Kirkuk, a Kurdish high-school teacher was shot dead on his way to work.

(AFP, AP, Reuters)