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| Suicide bombing wounds 3 Sahwa fighters in Diala |
| 2008-06-30 |
| (VOI) – A female suicide bomber struck near a Sahwa (Awakening) council in northeastern Baaquba city, wounding three council members, Iraqi authorities said on Sunday. "A female suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt blew herself up near a Sahwa council in al-Wajihiya district, al-Muqdadiya, wounding three Sahwa fighters," a source from Diala police, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq- (VOI). The source did not provide further details of the attack. The attack is the sixteenth by female bombers in Diala province throughout the past six months, according to figures announced by the head of the provincial council, Ibrahim Bajlan. On June 22, a woman blew herself up near the building of the local administration in downtown Baaquba, killing 13 persons, including a police captain, and wounding 30 others. |
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