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Female suicide bomber kills two in Baquba market
A woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a market in the central Iraqi city of Baquba on Monday, killing two people and wounding 14 others, a medic told AFP.
- Agencies
- Published: 00:09 July 8, 2008
Baquba: A woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a market in the central Iraqi city of Baquba on Monday, killing two people and wounding 14 others, a medic told AFP.
The bomber detonated her explosives vest in Al Mafraq market in Baquba, the capital of restive Diyala province, at 10.45am, a police officer said.
Apart from the bomber, "two people, including a woman, were killed in the attack," the medic from Baquba hospital said.
Three other attacks in the same province left four more people dead yesterday, police said.
A roadside bombing in northern Baquba's Al Rahima district killed a woman, police said. Soon after the blast local people fired in the air, leaving a second woman killed by a stray bullet.
And two members of local anti-Al Qaida fronts were killed by snipers, police added.
One was murdered in Khan Beni Sa'ad town and the other in Baquba's Al Hashmiyat district.
Police say gunmen have killed a member of a Sunni political party in northern Iraq as he was standing outside his house.
The Iraqi Islamic Party has issued a statement condemning the killing of Abdul Bari Ebrahim in a village near Tal Afar, 420km northwest of Baghdad.
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