At least 25 dead in Iraq suicide attack

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. Skip related content

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The attack took place in Jalawla, 130 kilometres (80 miles) from Baghdad. Jalawla, in the dangerous province of Diyala, is home to a mixed population of Shiite Kurds and Sunni Arabs, many of them close to Al-Qaeda.

Mohammed Osman, a local official in Khanaqin north of Jalawla, told AFP the bomber wearing an explosives belt struck as a local family was receiving condolences.

Twenty-five people were killed and 50 wounded, a security official said. It was not immediately clear if a Kurdish communist chief, who was taking condolences over the death of his son, was among the casualties.

Earlier on Monday, eight people were killed and 16 wounded when a bomb exploded close to a car repair workshop near Abu Ghraib on the western outskirts of Baghdad, security officials said.

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