IRAQ: Suicide bomber kills ten people at a funeral in Baquba

Record ID: 356159

  • Title: IRAQ: Suicide bomber kills ten people at a funeral in Baquba
  • Date: 25th December 2007
  • Summary: MEDICS HELPING BOY TO LAY ON HOSPITAL BED
  • Embargoed: 9th January 2008 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA28VWDYTNA7QMGT9UCD8UHPXJZ
  • Story Text: Ten people die in an attack by a suicide bomber in Baquba. Two gunmen are killed by U.S. forces in an operation near the city.
    A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives struck a funeral in the city of Baquba on Tuesday (December 25), killing 10 people and wounding five, the U.S. military said.
    The suicide bomber, wearing a vest packed with explosives, also wounded 21 people, police said.
    U.S. forces said in a statement they had killed two "criminals" in the town and were checking their identities.
    Police said the father and son had worked as armed volunteers with the U.S. military.
    All the casualties were members of the U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrols who were burying their comrades.
    Baquba is the capital of Diyala province, a restive area north of Baghdad where U.S. commanders say al Qaeda Sunni Arab militants have regrouped after being driven out of other areas in Iraq.
    U.S. forces have hired mainly Sunni volunteers to man neighbourhood patrols in the ethnically and religiously mixed area.
    The units have frequently been targeted by al Qaeda militants and also occasionally clashed with police.
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