A suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up among a crowd of
police recruits and policemen in the volatile province of Diyala on
Monday, killing at least 25 people and wounding some 22 others, a
provincial police source said.
The suicide bomber blew himself up in the Ishbiliyah Square in
Baquba City where the recruits were gathering outside the police
headquarters to sign up for joining the Iraqi police, the source
told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Most of the victims were police recruits and policemen, the
source said.
Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, is the capital of
Diyala province which stretches from the eastern edges of Baghdad
to the Iranian border. The province has been the hot bed of
insurgency and sectarian violence since the US-led invasion in
2003.
(Xinhua News Agency October 29, 2007)
