At least 32 people have been killed, half of them police officers, after a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives at a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad.
Police officials said the blast occurred on Friday morning in the mostly Shia neighborhood of Zafaraniyah, where mourners had gathered for the funeral of Mohammed al-Maliki, a real-estate agent who was killed along with his wife and son a day earlier.
They said 65 people were wounded in the explosion, including 16 officers, which struck as the procession was transporting Maliki's body for the funeral services.
Hospital officials confirmed the death toll, and said that at least four of those killed were women.
The disgraced former head of the International Monetary Fund – who lost his job amid claims...
A suicide car bomber has killed at least 15 people and wounded 21 others in an...
Green Zone. International Zone. The Bubble. To the foreigners still living there, the Iraqi capital’s fortified...
After several years of scandal in which the Catholic Church has faced allegations of financial impropriety,...
