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| At least 25 people have been killed by a suicide bomber in the Iraqi province of Diyala, police say. | At least 25 people have been killed by a suicide bomber in the Iraqi province of Diyala, police say. |
| Dozens of people are also reported to have been hurt in the attack. | |
| Sources told the BBC the suicide attacker targeted a funeral in the town of Jalawla, 115km (70 miles) north-east of the capital, Baghdad. | Sources told the BBC the suicide attacker targeted a funeral in the town of Jalawla, 115km (70 miles) north-east of the capital, Baghdad. |
| It was the second bomb attack in Iraq on Monday, with an earlier explosion near the capital. Baghdad, killing at least eight people. | |
| The BBC's Hugh Sykes, in Baghdad, says al-Qaeda have launched several attacks in Diyala since losing support in other parts of Iraq. | |
| The likely target of the attack, our correspondent says, was a local politician who was attending the funeral. | |
| US officials said earlier this month that Iraq was experiencing its lowest levels of violence since 2003. | |
| But since then there have been several major bombings. | |
| The latest violence came just hours after a bomb had exploded near a car-repair shop in the Abu Ghraib district, west of Baghdad. | |
| Another attack in Abu Ghraib on 10 March killed 33 people. | |
| In the same week, more than 30 people died in an attack on a police recruitment centre and another 10 were killed in an explosion at a cattle market in Babel province. |