AP - 9/7/2004 11:12:00 AM GMT
Fierce fighting between U.S. forces and Al-Sadr fighters across Baghdad's Sadr City suburb has left at least 34 dead.
Clashes in the last 24 hours wounded at least 193 Iraqis, health officials said.
A senior Health Ministry official said that 15 people died and 67 were wounded on Tuesday morning alone.
One U.S. soldier is among the dead and several others were wounded.
The renewed violence came after a truce in the neighborhood after al-Sadr called on his supporters last week to observe a cease-fire and announced that he planned to enter politics.
But al-Sadr aides later said that peace talks in Sadr City between al-Sadr's representatives and interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's government have been stalled after the Iraqi government refused their demands that U.S. occupation forces stay out of the troubled district.
Assassination Bid
Earlier, the governor of Baghdad has escaped unharmed from an apparent assassination attemp in the Iraqi capital.
Reports say that rebels blew up a bomb by the road and shot at Governor Ali al-Haidri's convoy as it passed through the Hay al-Adel area of west Baghdad.
Colonel Adnan Rahman said "There was an attempt to assassinate the Baghdad governor,"
"At around 9 am (0500 GMT), militants opened fire at his convoy and then detonated a car bomb... The governor is safe. There are victims but we don't know how many." He added.
A man and woman are reported to have been seriously wounded and were taken to hospital.
Anti-government rebels have regularly tried to assassinate senior Iraqi officials.
A U.S. military spokesman said that an incident in the area was being investigated, but gave no further details.
Bomb Attacks
On Monday, the U.S. military said that a U.S. soldier was killed in an attack in Baghdad.
The military had announced earlier the death of another U.S. soldier in a roadside bomb attack.
Another soldier was also injured in the bomb attack which took place just before midnight in the city.
Another bomb exploded at around 7:50 am (0350 GMT) at a U.S. convoy in Sadr City but there were no reports of casualties, a military spokesman said.
Elsewhere, two Iraqi explosive experts were injured as they tried to defuse a roadside bomb in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, said national guardsman Omar Thaer.