About 60 people died from bombs and gunfire in Iraq on Saturday as a wave of sectarian violence continued.

U.S. President George W. Bush spoke with seven leaders of Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political parties to ease the crisis triggered by the bombing of a Shiite Muslim shrine earlier this week.

Bush "encouraged them to continue to work together to thwart the efforts of the perpetrators of the violence to sow discord among Iraq's communities,'' said Frederick Jones, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council.

Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said the parties agreed to repair all religious sites and compensate the families of those killed.

However, a Sunni politician said the agreement isn't enough to get the Sunnis to end their boycott of coalition government talks.

The attack on the Askariya shrine in Samarra has led to reprisal attacks by Shiites against the minority Sunnis.

To try and calm things down, the Iraqi interior ministry announced a 24-hour ban on driving in Baghdad and the surrounding suburbs.

The ban begins on Sunday morning and last until Monday.

The Iraqi government also ordered the extension of an extraordinary daytime curfew in Baghdad and the surrounding provinces on Friday.

The daytime curfew was set from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Baghdad and the provinces of Diyala, Salaheddin and Babil and was set to end by Saturday night.

Despite the curfew and driving ban, however, sectarian violence continued Saturday. A car bomb was detonated in a Shiite city, and 13 members of a Shiite family were gunned down northeast of the capital as part of attacks that claimed at least 60 lives.

At least one Sunni mosque was targeted Saturday after two rockets were blasted at a Shiite mosque in Tuz Khormato north of the capital on Friday night.

And the bodies of 14 Iraqi police commandos were found near a Sunni mosque in southern Baghdad Saturday, though the circumstances around their deaths were not immediately clear.

The bodies we found with their three burned vehicles.

Gunfire also erupted near the home of a well-known Sunni cleric while the funeral procession of a slain Al-Arabiya television reporter passed by.

About 21 people died in small-scale shootings and bombings in Baghdad, police said.

At least 190 people -- mostly Sunnis -- have died since Wednesday.

While violence continued, "I think the danger of civil war as a result of this attack has diminished, although I do not believe we are completely out of danger yet,'' U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Saturday night.

Jill Carroll

Sunday is the deadline given by the kidnappers of U.S. freelance journalist Jill Carroll for their demands to be met.

If they are not, the kidnappers have said they will kill Carroll, who was kidnapped on Jan. 7 in Baghdad.

"There are no new developments on her case, so far, because we are busy with a lot of things right now,'' deputy interior minister Hussein Kamal said Saturday.

"We know about the deadline and we hope that we can reach her before they manage to kill her.''

With files from The Associated Press