Death toll from Iraq suicide strike 49 -police

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Death toll from Iraq suicide strike 49 -police
17 Apr 2008 09:27:54 GMT

BAGHDAD, April 17 (Reuters) - The death toll from a suicide
bombing at a funeral in northern Iraq on Thursday reached 49,
police said, making it one of the deadliest attacks in months.

Fifty other people were wounded, police said.


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Source: Reuters

Suicide bomber kills 30 at Iraq funeral
17 Apr 2008 09:14:04 GMT

BAGHDAD, April 17 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck
a funeral in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 30
mourners in the latest attack in a region where al Qaeda
militants have regrouped, police said.

The bomber detonated a suicide vest in a village near
where the provinces of Diyala and Salahuddin meet, two
police sources said. One said mourners at the funeral
included members of local U.S.-backed neighbourhood
security units, who have increasingly been attacked by
al Qaeda militants.

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[UpInArms]

1. Suicide bomber kills 49 at Iraq funeral

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck a funeral in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 49 mourners and wounding 55 in an attack that suggests militants have launched a new campaign of violence in the north.

Survivors said the funeral had been for two members of a U.S.-backed neighborhood security unit who were killed on Wednesday. Blame is likely to fall on the Sunni Islamist al Qaeda, which has vowed to target the neighborhood units because they work with U.S. forces.

The attack was one of the deadliest in Iraq for months and underscored the ability of militants to wreak havoc despite overall falls in violence that have prompted the United States to start withdrawing troops from Iraq.

Police said the bomber detonated a suicide vest after entering the funeral tent in a Sunni Arab village near the town of Adhaim in Diyala province.

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Northern Iraq has seen an upsurge in bombings this week, including one that killed 40 people in the town of Baquba, capital of Diyala province, on Tuesday.

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