Attacks In Baghdad Kill At Least Nine

Soldiers guard an ambulance as it takes away casualties from the site of an attack in April (file photo) (epa) May 18, 2006 -- At least nine people have been killed in two separate incidents in Baghdad.

In one, gunmen opened fire on a minibus taking laborers to work in the southwest of the city, killing at least five. In the other, at least four people were killed when a bomb exploded near a police patrol.

(Reuters, AFP, AP)