Iraq Watch: April 21, 2007

Rundown of Violence

Anbar Province

_ Militants assassinated the head of Fallujah's city council, Sami Abdul-Amir, in a drive-by shooting Saturday.

Babil Province

_ The mayor of Musayyib, situated some 40 miles south of Baghdad, was killed in a roadside bombing. A bodyguard was also killed in the attack while four others were wounded.

Baghdad Province

_ A bomb left on a bus exploded Saturday in the capital's Sadr City district leaving at least three dead.

_ Police found 11 bodies scattered around Baghdad.

Diyala Province

_ Authorities discovered eight bodies, including four who had been decapitated, in the town of Khalis.

Tamim Province

_ Gunmen stormed the house of a Kurdish family in the northern, ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, killing four.

Sources: AFP, AP, Reuters