Bomb kills six people in Baghdad - police

BAGHDAD, Mar 9 (Reuters) A roadside bomb killed six people and wounded eight in Baghdad's western Amriya district today, police and hospital officials said.

Another police source said two had been killed, one of them a child, and seven wounded. He said the target of the bomb had been an Iraqi army patrol. No soldiers were among the casualties.

Sunni insurgents fighting to topple the Shi'ite and Kurdish-led government attack Iraqi army and police patrols on a daily basis.

Yesterday, two policemen were killed when a roadside bomb went off near a police patrol in central Baghdad, and two Interior Ministry employees died when a bomb blasted a ministry convoy.

The bodies of 18 men -- bound, blindfolded and garrotted -- were found near Amriya, a Sunni insurgent stronghold, on Tuesday. Officials have yet to confirm the religious identities of the 18 amid surging sectarian violence between minority Sunnis and majority Shi'ites.

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