Insurgents left a trail of bloodshed across Iraq today, killing at least 30 people in a series of gun and bomb attacks.
On average 34 people die every day in the country, according to a London based group which has been monitoring the death toll since the start of the war in 2003.
In the two years of conflict, more than 25,000 Iraqi civilians have died violently.
Gunmen in two cars attacked a minibus bringing workers to a US base outside Baquba today, killing 13 people.
The minibus driver and nine workers from the base were killed in the attack, just north of the capital Baghdad, after the gunmen blocked the bus and opened fire. Three other civilians died when the bus careered into their car.
Three Sunni Arab members of the team drafting Iraq’s new constitution were shot dead in Baghdad. Police said Sheikh Mujbil al-Sheikh Isa, Aziz Ibrahim and Dhamin Hussein Ileywi were shot as they left a restaurant in the Karrada district.
In Kirkuk, two people were killed and four others were injured when an Iraqi police patrol was hit by a roadside bomb. A policeman was one of the victims, while the other was a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).
Another policeman died after a device exploded outside Tikrit University.
Four others were killed in separate attacks across Iraq today.
