By IRNA
Baghdad : Death toll rose up to 36 when a suicide bomber targeted a funeral procession for a victim of another bombing.
Iraqi Interior Ministry official said on Wednesday that the suicide bomber killed 36 people and wounded 32.
The Shia funeral, in the mixed eastern neighborhood of Zayouna, was for Nabil Hussein, an Iraqi killed Friday in a car bombing in central Baghdad’s Tayaran square, the official said.
Iraqi police surrounded the funeral bombing site, while ambulances worked to transport the wounded, the official said.
Hussein was one of 14 people killed and 64 wounded when a parked car detonated near the square, a popular shopping district for food and clothes.
Several of the dead from Tuesday’s funeral attack were relatives of Hussein and at least one was an immediate family member, the official said.
An official with Iraq’s Interior Ministry said earlier 481 Iraqi civilians were killed in December — the lowest reported monthly toll for the year.