By DPA
Baghdad : At least 34 people – mostly policemen – were killed Monday and more than 36 wounded in insurgency related violence in Iraq, sources said.
A suicide attacker driving a motorbike rigged with explosives blew himself up in the morning near a police training centre in central Baquba city, killing at least 30 policemen and recruits and wounding 20, Colonel Ali Ismail said.
Baquba, the capital of the restive province of Diyala, is about 60 km north-east of Baghdad.
Militants of Al Qaeda terror network are active in Diyala, where a large-scale security offensive has been jointly mounted by the US and Iraqi troops in June.
The province’s clans set up in August a so-called “awakening council,” which is a copy of similar tribal councils set up in other Iraqi provinces to fight Al Qaeda insurgents.
In Tikrit, 170 kilometres north of Baghdad at least four people were killed and 16 wounded in a car bomb attack.
The car bomb was parked on the side of a road near a bakery in the town of Sinya near Tikrit. Some of wounded were in a critical condition, a police source said.