BAQUBA, Iraq - A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a school in the restive city of Baquba on Tuesday, wounding 21 people as the blast ripped through a crowd of teachers and pupils, police said. “Four female teachers and 17 pupils were wounded, including five very young boys,” said police Major Ahmed Al Karkhi.The attacker targeted Al Mutwra school in the middle of Baquba, 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of Baghdad, as pupils were arriving for morning classes, Karkhi said.
The attack was the fifth by a suicide bomber in Baquba this month and follows a similar assault on a funeral ceremony for a police colonelÂ’s relative on Monday near the north-central city of Baiji, which killed 17 mourners.