At least 20 killed by female suicide bomber northeast of Baghdad

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
At least 20 people were killed in a suicide bombing in a home northeast of Baghdad on Monday, a senior Iraqi commander said. Many of the dead were police. Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim al-Rubaie, the military commander of operations in Diyala province, said that 20 people died and 30 were wounded in the evening attack in Balad Ruz, 45 miles (70 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad. A police officer said the attacker was a woman. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media. Another security official said the bomber targeted the house of a former police commissioner who had been detained in Camp Bucca, a US-run prison, for one year and was released earlier on Monday. At the time of the explosion, the detainee was hosting relatives and friends at a banquet.