JNN 20 Jan 2011 BAGHDAD : Suicide bombers struck in Iraq for a third consecutive day on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people in two attacks in Diyala province and raising fears of a renewed insurgent campaign targeting Iraqi security forces and government officials.
In the deadliest incident, a suicide bomber drove an ambulance packed with explosives into a police training center in the provincial capital, Baqubah, about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. At least 13 people were killed and 70 injured in the mid-morning attack, many of them trainees with the Facilities Protection Service, which guards state institutions and government dignitaries, according to Lt. Col. Ghalib Attiyah, police spokesman for Diyala province.
In the second attack, Attiyah said, a man wearing an explosives vest blew himself up near the convoy of a top provincial official during a gathering of Shiite pilgrims in the Khalis district, north of Baqubah. The blast killed two and injured 15, including the official, Sadiq al-Hussaini, the deputy chairman of Diyala’s provincial council
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