At least 11 Iraqis were killed and more than 60 people wounded Wednesday by two suicide car bombers in the southern Iraqi city of Hilla, a coalition spokesman and local sources said.  

The two insurgents drove a pair of explosives-laden cars towards a logistics base of Polish-led coalition forces in the region early Wednesday morning, the spokesman said in Hilla, some 100 km south of Baghdad.

Only one of the two cars exploded and the second had been stopped when troops at the base shot its driver dead, the spokesman said.

But local sources said one of the two cars exploded after the guards fired at them and the other vehicle struck a concrete barrier and exploded.

Eight coalition troops, including six Polish soldiers, one US national and one Hungarian, were injured in the attack, the spokesman said, adding that their wounds were not life threatening.

(Xinhua News Agency February 19, 2004)