Death toll rises to 25 in Iraq´s suicide attack

Source: Xinhua | 03-24-2009 09:47

BAQUBA, Iraq, March 23 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a suicide bombing in Iraq's Diyala province on Monday rose to 25 with 45 wounded, a provincial police source said.

A man wounded in a suicide bombing in Jalulu, 125 kilometers (80 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, is helped by medics at a hospital in Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, Monday, March 23, 2009. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

"Our latest report said that up to 25 people were killed and 45 others injured by the suicide attack in a funeral tent in Jalwlaa town, some 140 km northeast of Baghdad," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The suicide bomber blew up his explosive vest inside a funeral tent where people came to morn a brother of the local Kurdish leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) named Hameed Abass Khudadai, the source added.