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Twelve Iraqis killed in suicide attack in Baquba (1st Lead)
Apr 20, 2009, 12:28 GMT
Baquba, Iraq - A man killed 11 people and himself when he detonated explosives strapped to his body near the mayor's office in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Monday, medics and police said.
Police and medics on Monday told the German Press Agency dpa that four Iraqi police officers, four Iraqi soldiers, and three Iraqi civilians, including a translator for the US military, had been killed in the blast, some 60 kilometres northeast of Baghdad.
Seven Iraqis were also wounded in the attack, police and medics told dpa.
The US military said that eight US soldiers had also been injured in the blast, which took place at around 10:00 (07:00 GMT) in the capital of Iraq's ethnically divided Diyala province on Monday morning.
'No US Coalition deaths are reported at this time,' the US military said in a statement sent to reporters on Monday afternoon.
Earlier, witnesses and the Dubai-based satellite television channel al-Arabiya reported that US soldiers had been among those killed in Monday's attack.
Baquba was formerly the site of intense fighting between insurgents and US forces. Violence there has declined in recent years, but on March 30, three day-workers were killed and eight others were injured when a man detonated a bomb strapped to his bicycle.
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