By DPA
Baghdad : At least 29 people were killed and 32 injured Monday in two bombings in Iraq, including a suicide attack targeting a police headquarters in Baquba, north of Baghdad.
At least 25 people were killed in the suicide bombing at the police headquarters in Baquba, the capital of the restive province of Diyala. Some 16 people were injured in the attack, many of them police recruits, the Voices of Iraq news agency reported.
Al Qaeda insurgents are active in Diyala, where Iraqi and US troops have jointly mounted a large-scale security offensive.
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 a separate attack, at least four people were killed and 16 wounded by a car bomb in Tikrit, 170 km north of Baghdad.
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 told DPA.