By Xinhua,
Baghdad : Six people were killed and six others injured in separate bomb attacks in a village in Diyala province on Tuesday morning, a provincial police source said.
A roadside bomb detonated near a civilian car, carrying an anti-Qaida Awakening council group member, while driving in the village of A’bbara near the city capital of Baquba, 65 km northeast of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The blast killed the driver and destroyed his car, the source said.
When some villagers took the body of the victim to his house, another bomb detonated outside the house, killing a villager, he said.
A third roadside bomb detonated while a crowd of villagers were mourning the bodies of the two victims in the village, killing one mourner, who is also a member in the local Awakening council group, and wounding villagers, he added.
The Awakening Councils involve local armed groups, especially some powerful anti-U.S. Sunni insurgent groups, who fight the al-Qaida network after the latter committed indiscriminate killings against both Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities.
In a separate incident, another roadside bomb went off near a civilian car, carrying three brothers, in the Abu-Fayyadh village near the city of Baquba, killing the three and destroying their vehicle, the source said.
Diyala province, which stretches from the eastern edges of Baghdad to the Iranian border, has long been stronghold for al-Qaida in Iraq network.
The attacks in Diyala province came as the U.S. and Iraqi security forces have been conducting major offensives against extremist Sunni and Shiite militiamen across the war-torn country.