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Iraq
Suicide attack kills 25 in Iraq
2013-04-07
A coordinated attack involving a suicide bomber at an open-air election campaign meeting in central Iraq killed 25 people on Saturday, the latest in a spike in unrest two weeks before provincial polls.

Supporters of Muthanna Ahmed Abdulwahid, a Sunni Arab candidate for the Azimun Ala al-Bina (Determined to Build) party, a small local list, had been gathered at around lunchtime in the restive city of Baquba, 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of Baghdad.

As they were meeting, a terrorist militant threw a grenade before a splodydope suicide bomber then blew himself up, a police colonel and a medic at Baquba hospital said.

At least 25 people were killed and 60 others were wounded, the officials said, though Abdulwahid appeared to have been unharmed.
Posted by:Steve White

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