Two suicide car bombers killed 11 Iraqis and wounded 44 others as well as eight soldiers with the US-led coalition yesterday at a military supply base in Hilla, central Iraq, a military spokesman said.

?At 7:15 local time near the logistics base there was a terrorist attack using two cars,? Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Strzelecki, a spokesman for Polish-led troops in the region, told Reuters. ?We found the bodies of the two drivers, and two Iraqis standing in the street were killed.?

Eight coalition soldiers ? six Poles, a Hungarian and an American ? were wounded in the attack in Hilla, about 100 km south of Baghdad, the latest strike on the soldiers of countries helping the United States occupy Iraq.

The soldiers? wounds were not life-threatening, a second spokesman for the multinational force said.

Strzelecki said the first car stopped after troops fired on it, and then another car approached, hit the base?s concrete blast wall and exploded.

The explosion smashed several homes neighboring the base, leaving piles of rubble, collapsed roofs and shattered walls. A local hospital treated dozens of people, including infants and children, for shrapnel wounds.

Like many survivors of car bombs that killed about 100 people at facilities of the US-backed Iraqi army and police last week, people in the city blamed US forces for the attacks.

?I?m completely certain they were airplanes that hit us. The first rocket landed, smashing the windows, and the second rocket made the roof collapse on top of us,? one man whose house partially collapsed in the blast told Reuters Television.

A bomb attack on an Italian military base in the southern city of Nassiriyah killed at least 22 people last November and an attack on Kerbala in December killed six foreign soldiers, including four Bulgarians and two Thais. Guerrillas ambushed and killed a Polish officer south of Baghdad in November.