A suicide bomber killed 34 people, including two state television employees, at a checkpoint near Baghdad Sunday

A suicide bomber killed 34 people, including two state television employees, at a checkpoint near Baghdad Sunday.

The suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged minibus during morning rush hour at a checkpoint at the northern entrance to Hilla, the confessionally-mixed but mostly-Shiite capital of Babil province south of Baghdad.
  
The attack killed 34 people and left 167 others wounded, a police captain and medical sources said. "Some of the victims were burned inside their cars," a police officer said.
 
Iraqiya state television said two of its employees, Muthanna Abdulhussein and Khaled Abed Thamer, were among the dead.

In Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, gunmen shot dead at least two soldiers and wounded one at an army checkpoint, while three attacks north of Baghdad killed a police colonel and two policemen.