BAGHDAD - The U.S. military says two Iraqis have been killed and 12 others wounded when a female suicide bomber struck a convoy carrying senior Iraqi officials in Baqouba. Tuesday's blast is the second suicide bombing in the city in as many days.However, provincial and Iraqi police officials say it was a male bomber and the convoy was also carrying the Diyala governor.
According to the U.S. military in northern Iraq, the woman blew herself up as a convoy carrying the Iraqi commander of ground forces in the surrounding Diyala province was near government offices in central Baqouba. It says she detonated her explosives relatively far from Gen. Ali Ghaidan because Iraqi soldiers guarding the convoy noticed she was acting suspiciously.