Suicide bombing kills 15 in Iraq
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Baghdad, Dec 7 (Xinhua) At least 15 people were killed and 25 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the town of Muqdadiyah in Diyala province Friday, a police source said.The suicide bomber, who was wearing an explosives vest, detonated it in front of the gate of the US-backed Awakening Council, which is fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq, in Muqdadiyah, some 100 km northeast of Baghdad, the source said.The Diyala province has been a hotbed of insurgency and sectarian violence since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. (c) Indo-Asian News Service
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