(11/04)

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. artillery pummelled Falluja on Wednesday and troops hunted guerrillas still fighting days after Washington said its offensive had destroyed rebel control of the Sunni Muslim city west of Baghdad. Further north, where violence has surged since the U.S. assault on Falluja began last Monday, 15 Iraqis were killed and 22 wounded in the oil refining town of Baiji. A suicide car bomber rammed a U.S. convoy, prompting troops to open fire. U.S. officers in Falluja said Marines were "cleaning up" remaining Iraqi and foreign Islamists and Saddam Hussein loyalists, and Iraq's interim government said some 1,600 rebels lay dead in the rubble.