The start of June 2005 in Iraq

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050602/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb targeting a northern Iraq restaurant where bodyguards of Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime minister were eating Thursday killed nine people and injured 25, police Brig. Sarhad Qadre said. Deputy Prime Minister Rowsch Nouri Shaways was not hurt.

Also Thursday, a car bomb attack killed the deputy head of Diyala provincial council and three of his bodyguards north of Baghdad, police said. In Kirkuk, meanwhile, a suicide car bomber killed two Iraqi bystanders and wounded eight others, police said.

Earlier, a mortar barrage killed three Iraqi children and their uncle as they played together outside their Baghdad home, the latest deaths in an insurgency that claimed a total of six lives Wednesday and showed no signs of slowing down.