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Police: Iraq suicide bomber kills 25, wounds 45

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Source: CCTV.com | 03-24-2009 10:52

A suicide bomber has blown himself up at a Kurdish funeral in Iraq's volatile, ethnically mixed northern Diyala province. Police said Monday's blast killed 25 people and wounded 45.

An Iraqi police commando inspects the site where a roadside bomb targeted a police patrol in Baghdad on March 13, 2009. At least 25 people were killed and 50 others were wounded in a suicide bomb attack as a Kurdish family was receiving condolences northeast of the Iraqi capital on Monday, local officials said.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)
An Iraqi police commando inspects the 
site where a roadside bomb targeted a 
police patrol in Baghdad on March 13, 
2009. At least 25 people were killed 
and 50 others were wounded in a suicide 
bomb attack as a Kurdish family was 
receiving condolences northeast of the 
Iraqi capital on Monday, local officials
said.(AFP/File/Ali Yussef)

Earlier, a bomb at a west Baghdad bus terminal killed nine people and wounded 23. This is the second bomb attack in the predominantly Sunni Arab Abu Ghraib district this month.

 

Editor:Du Xiaodan