Iraq: 5 School Kids Killed by Convoy

BAGHDAD — Five school children were killed Tuesday after being struck by a car in the convoy of a top judicial official during a chaotic gunbattle with checkpoint guards, police and hospital officials said.

The children, ages 6 to 10, were hit by the car during an exchange of gunfire between the official's security team and Iraqi police who opened fire after the convoy failed to stop at a checkpoint in central Baghdad.

The police and hospital officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they feared reprisals, said the children were heading to school about 8 a.m. in the al-Salhiyah district near the Foreign Ministry compound.

One child died at the scene. The other four died after being taken for medical care.

Bosho Ibrahim, Iraq's deputy justice minister, said the convoy carried Midhat al-Mahmoud, president of the Supreme Judicial council, the country's top legal oversight agency.

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