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Suicide Bomber Strikes Iraq Funeral

by Jarrett Martineau | May 15, 2008 at 01:12 am | 132 views | add comment

In war-torn Iraq, even funerals have become targets for further violence.

A suicide bomber has killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens more at a funeral being attended by Sunni Arab tribesmen opposed to al-Qaeda.

Police said the bomber blew himself up inside the funeral tent in the village of Abu Munasir, in Anbar province, west of Baghdad on Wednesday. Forty people were wounded.

No group has come forward to say it carried out the attack.

Police said the funeral was for Taha Obaid, a school headmaster who had been shot dead a day earlier.