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Woman suicide attacker, car bomb kill 26 in Iraq
 BAGHDAD - A woman wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 16 people and a suicide car bomb killed 10 in Iraq on Friday, in attacks aimed at units helping US forces fight Al Qaeda.Police said 27 people were wounded in the first attack, when the female suicide bomber struck at former Sunni Arab insurgents who have switched sides to join US-backed security forces battling Al Qaeda. The car bomb killed seven Iraqi troops and three members of a local neighbourhood patrol. Eight people were hurt. Both strikes took place in religiously and ethnically mixed Diyala, Iraqs most violent province, where US forces say Al Qaeda gunmen are regrouping after being pushed from other areas. Police said the female bomber targeted a building used by members of the 1920 Revolutionary Brigades in the town of Muqdadiya, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad. Witnesses said a woman walked up to the building, in a street full of shops, and began asking questions. She detonated the vest she was wearing when people out shopping before Friday prayers began gathering around her. We saw several bodies. It is Friday and the area was crowded, Ammar Fadhel, a 35-year-old labourer, told Reuters. The US military put the death toll at 12, with 18 wounded. All were civilians, it said in an email to Reuters. Police put the toll at 16 and said women and children were among the casualties. In the second attack, a suicide car bomber struck a checkpoint in the village of Dali Abbas which, like Muqdadiya, is just north of Diyalas provincial capital Baquba. Posted by: Steve White 2007-12-08 |
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