Suicide bomber targets Iraq army recruitment centre

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber blew himself up at an Iraqi army recruitment centre in a former airfield in western Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 11 people and wounding eight, police said.

They said the bomber walked up to several vehicles and detonated his explosives. The recruiting centre at Muthanna airport has been targeted several times by suicide bombers.

In a separate attack, gunmen ambushed a convoy of police cars and shot dead eight policeman, police sources said. The insurgents then set the police vehicles ablaze.

Guerrillas have launched a series of attacks in Baghdad over the past week, killing scores of people in a surge of violence.

- REUTERS