By IANS
Baghdad : A female suicide attacker killed 25 people and wounded 27, including women and children, in Iraq Friday, media reports said.
The woman had explosives strapped to herself and blew herself up in the middle of a gathering of militia members in the city of Muqdadiyah in the Diyala province, northeast of the capital Baghdad, the al-Arabiya television channel reported.
The US and Iraqi troops along with local militia fought Al Qaeda terrorists in the city recently.
Meanwhile, militants killed four people when they opened fire on the members of the Rescue Front militia Thursday night near Mosul in Nineveh province in northern Iraq, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported Friday.
The incident followed the release this week of an audiotape on a militant website in which a supposed Al Qaeda leader said that the terrorist network had established a new brigade to kill militia members who had joined a US initiative to fight Al Qaeda.