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Suicide bomber hits Iraq village | Suicide bomber hits Iraq village |
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A suicide bomber has killed 16 people and injured many others in a village in Iraq's Diyala province on a day which saw at least six other violent deaths. | |
The bomber set off a vest packed with explosives inside a popular coffee shop in the village of al-Abbara, north of the city of Baquba, police said. | |
Al-Qaeda militants have been fighting security forces and tribes in the area. | |
In a separate attack in Baquba, a suicide car bomber struck a checkpoint, killing a policeman and a civilian. | |
Fifteen people were wounded in the blast in central Baquba, three of them children, police said. | |
The incidents followed attacks in Diyala on Monday in which at least four people were killed. | |
They are the latest in a number of attacks in Diyala province, where al-Qaeda militants have been fighting government forces and local tribal groups. | |
Also on Tuesday, a car bomb aimed at a police patrol in Baghdad went off, killing four people and wounding seven others. |