Iraq Bus Bombing...

A roadside bomb in southern Iraq struck a bus on Tuesday, killing 16 passengers and wounding 22, an Interior Ministry official said.

An Iraqi girl walks Tuesday past the hulk of a tank north of Baghdad that was destroyed in the early days of the war.

The bombing occurred around 2 p.m., the official said, about 50 miles south of Nasiriya as the bus traveled between Najaf and Basra. No other details were immediately available.
Meanwhile, five people were killed and 14 wounded when a suicide bomber slammed into a checkpoint in northern Iraq...(Click here for more).