Suicide Bombing Kills 7 In Iraq, 22 Wounded
A suicide bombing Wednesday in the city of Baqouba killed seven people and wounded 22, police said, while authorities increased the death toll from a Baghdad suicide attack at a funeral the previous day to 36.
The bombings were a reminder of the dangers that persist despite the recent decline in violence in Iraq _ and of the peril for mass gatherings in a country where the bereaved often find themselves targets.
In Wednesday's attack, the bomber detonated his explosives near a hospital in the center of the city, the capital of volatile Diyala province, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, said police Col. Raghib al-Omari.
The dead included a policeman and two members of a U.S.-backed armed volunteer group, the Brigades of 1920s Revolution, a police officer said.
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AP | ELENA BECATOROS | January 2, 2008 09:16 AM