BAGHDAD, Jan 29: At least 19 Iraqis were killed in rebel attacks and bombings on Sunday, including six coordinated car bombs set off near churches, while a roadside bombing wounded a US television news anchor and his cameraman.

At least 16 Iraqis were killed in a series of rebel attacks which were followed by the bombings by churches in Baghdad and Kirkuk.

In central Iraq, Bob Woodruff, news anchor with US television network ABC, and his cameraman Doug Vogt were seriously wounded when the vehicle they were in hit a roadside bomb near Taji, north of Baghdad.

The two were embedded with the US army’s 4th Infantry Division but were travelling in an Iraqi vehicle.

A statement from ABC News president David Westin said the two were in serious condition and being treated at a US military hospital.

In Tikrit early on Sunday, Mahamud Daham Bidewi, an assistant to the city’s chief of staff during Saddam’s regime, was killed when rebels fired a rocket at his home.

In another attack gunmen killed a police captain in the northern oil refinery town of Baiji, police said.

Ten Iraqis were killed and two wounded by a roadside bomb in Eskandiriyah town, 65 kilometers south of Baghdad, a police officer from Hilla said.

A suicide car bomber blew himself up by an Iraqi army patrol, killing four Iraqi soldiers, near Saddam’s native village of Ojah, located 180 kilometers north of Baghdad. Six other soldiers were wounded, said Khaled al-Jabouri, a police officer from Tikrit city. Three people died and 11 were wounded in the two Kirkuk car bombs.—AFP