Twenty-six killed in suicide attack in Iraq

By DPA

Baghdad/Cairo : A suicide attacker killed himself and 26 people in the Iraqi town of Hillah Tuesday, police said.

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The attacker blew himself up in his car in a busy part of the town centre, police said. There were several police officers among the dead, they said.

A further 65 were injured when the bomb went off Tuesday morning in the mixed Sunni and Shiite town that lies 100 kilometres to the south of the capital Baghdad, al-Arabiya news channel reported.

Since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Hillah has been the scene of many serious attacks.

The US military reported Tuesday that a US marine had been killed Saturday in the western province of Anbar.