Friday, January 27, 2012

Suicide bomber kills 32 at Iraq funeral procession

BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 32 people - including six policemen who were guarding the march - in the latest brazen attack since the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq.

Police said the blast struck around 11:00 a.m. in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah, where mourners had gathered for the funeral of a person killed the day before. They said 65 people were wounded in the attack, including 16 police.

Hospital officials confirmed the death toll.

People clean the scene of a car bomb attack in Zafaraniyah, Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. (AP / Khalid Mohammed)

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