BAGHDAD, Oct 17, 2007 (AFP) - A roadside bomb killed seven Iraqi police near the city of Diwaniyah, south of Baghdad, on Wednesday, military officials said.

One officer was among those killed when the police vehicle was hit by the blast on the main road between Diwaniyah and the town of Afak to the east, the officials said.

The explosion happened shortly after midnight (2100 GMT Tuesday) when the patrol was on its way to Afak police station, which had come under earlier attack.

BAGHDAD, Oct 15, 2007 (AFP) - Militants attacked a mainly Polish military base in central Iraq with mortars and machine guns on Monday, killing five civilians and wounding two Polish soldiers, officials said.

At least 20 civilians were wounded, including women and children, during the attack on the military base at Diwaniyah, 180 kilometres (110 miles) south of Baghdad, an Iraqi security official told AFP.

BAGHDAD, Oct 15, 2007 (AFP) - Five civilians, including two toddlers, were killed in a mortar attack on a joint US and Iraqi military base on Monday, an Iraqi security official said.

At least 20 civilians were wounded, including women and children, during the attack on the military base at Diwaniyah, 180 kilometres (110 miles) south of Baghdad, the official told AFP.

'Four mortars were fired at the base. There was heavy firing,' the official said, specifying that those killed and injured were outside the base.

NAJAF, Iraq, Aug 12, 2007 (AFP) - Hundreds of mourners turned out to bury an assassinated provincial Shiite governor and police chief on Sunday, as Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered an investigation into their killings.

Iraqi police and soldiers tightly guarded the centre of the holy Shiite city of Najaf, where the governor and police chief of the neighbouring province of Qadisiyah were to be buried one day after their deaths, an AFP reporter said.

BAGHDAD, Aug 12, 2007 (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday ordered an investigation into the assassinations of a provincial governor and police chief who were killed on Saturday in a bomb attack in the Shiite south.

'It is with sadness that we learnt of the martyrdom of the governor of Diwaniyah, Khalil Jalil Hamza, the police chief Khalid Hassan, and their guards from an explosive device,' the premier's office said in a statement.

DIWANIYAH, Iraq, Aug 11, 2007 (AFP) - The Shiite governor and police chief of Iraq's Qadisiyah province were both killed in a bomb attack on their convoy on Saturday, local security and health officials said.

'The hospital in Diwaniyah received the governor and police chief, and three other corpses from their security detail,' said Doctor Hamid Gaati, head of the health directorate in Diwaniyah, the provincial capital, south of Baghdad.

DIWANIYAH, Iraq, Aug 11, 2007 (AFP) - The governor and police chief of Iraq's southern Shiite city of Diwaniyah were killed in a bomb attack against their convoy on Saturday, local security and health officials said.

'The hospital in Diwaniyah received the governor and police chief, and three other corpses from their security detail,' said Doctor Hamid Gaati, head of the health directorate in Diwaniyah, 200 kilometres (120 miles) south of Baghdad.