DOZIER
BAGHDAD (REUTERS):
Bombs killed dozens of people in Iraq yesterday, adding to pressure on rival factions in the country's new coalition government to agree on interior and defence ministers who can tackle the relentless violence.
A series of separate attacks claimed at least 47 lives, most of them in the capital Baghdad, police and other officials said.
In the bloodiest incident, a car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed 12 people, mostly students, in a Sunni Arab area of northern Baghdad, police said. A roadside bomb killed at least eight people in a Shi'ite area in the city's northwest. Elsewhere, 11 people were killed when a bomb planted on a bus taking labourers to work went off in the town of Khalis in a volatile area 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
... Two CBS journalists among dead
Two British journalists working for U.S. television network CBS were among four people killed when a car bomb hit a U.S. military patrol in Baghdad yesterday.
American CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier was seriously wounded and six U.S. soldiers were also injured, CBS and the U.S. military said in separate statements.
An unnamed U.S. soldier and an Iraqi civilian working with the military were killed along with the network's London-based cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and soundman James Brolan, 42.
Dozier, 39 and a long-time reporter on Middle East affairs, was operated on in a Baghdad military hospital. Doctors were "cautiously optimistic", CBS said.
The crew had been filming a report on a joint U.S. and Iraqi army patrol through the Iraqi capital in mid-morning.
