BAGHDAD (Reuters) - At least 12 people were killed by roadside bombs and shootings across Iraq on Wednesday and a government convoy came under attack, prompting a senior politician to accuse security services of negligence.
The deadliest attack, in what has become daily sectarian violence, took place in a town near Kut, south of Baghdad, when a roadside bomb hit a minibus carrying Shi'ite poultry farm workers, killing eight of them, police said.
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