Suicide Bomber Kills 20 North of Baghdad
30 April 2007
Iraqi officials say a suicide bomber has killed at least 20 people attending a funeral.
They say 25 other people were wounded in the blast inside a tent where mourners had gathered in Khalis, a Shi'ite enclave north of Baghdad. It was the latest in a series of attacks across Iraq, Monday.
Earlier, a suicide car bomber killed four people at a police checkpoint in western Baghdad. In other parts of the capital, a bomb killed one person and gunmen killed a former general in Saddam Hussein's army.
In volatile Anbar province, a tanker truck exploded near a restaurant outside Ramadi, killing at least four people.
Elsewhere, four insurgents were killed when they attacked a police station in the northern city of Mosul. A car bomb also exploded in the city, killing a policeman.
In another development, the U.S. military says American and Iraqi forces killed eight militants late Sunday in a joint raid on a Shi'ite district of Baghdad. One Iraqi soldier also was killed.
The U.S. military denied local media reports that during the operation, American troops entered a mosque and an office belonging to allies of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
Separately, the U.S. military says four American soldiers, one Marine and an Iraqi interpreter were killed in Iraq from Saturday to Sunday.
More than 100 U.S. servicemen have been killed in Iraq this month, making it one of the deadliest for the U.S. since the 2003 invasion.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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