Gunmen kill 10 security guards in Iraq

The guards were killed when their convoy was attacked by heavily armed insurgents in Baghdad's dangerous western Jami'a district, said Capt. Qassim Hussein. He said another security worker and a civilian were also wounded.

An engineer from Malawi, who was working for the mobile telephone company Iraqna, was abducted during the attack, said a police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to talk to media.

Earlier Wednesday, two Iraqi journalists were wounded in the same area by gunmen who fired shots at them from a passing car as they drove to work at the al-

Iraq newspaper, Hussein added. The reporters were hospitalized.

The bodies of three men, including a relative of Iraq's defense minister, were also found Wednesday with gunshot wounds to the head in a Baghdad apartment, a police official said.

Sadad al-Batah, a Sunni Arab tribal leader related to Defense Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi, was killed along with his nephew and a third person, who was identified as an Iraqi army officer, said the official, who declined to be identified because of security reasons.