By Xinhua
Baghdad : The toll from the suicide bomb attack on mourners in Diyala province on Friday rose to 20 killed and 30 people injured, a provincial police source said.
“Our latest reports said that 20 people were killed and 30 others wounded,” Lieut. Col. Ali Salim told Xinhua by telephone.
A suicide bomber blew up his explosive vest among a crowd of people at a cemetery in the town of al-Sadiyah, northeast of the capital city of Baquba, Salim said.
The mourners were burying a policeman killed a day before in Diyala violence, he said.
Earlier, a police source put the toll at 10 killed and 30 wounded.
Diyala province, which stretches from the eastern edges of Baghdad to the Iranian border in the east, is a hot bed for sectarian violence and a major stronghold for al-Qaida network.