Eight killed in Iraq suicide attack

 Source: ninemsn
Eight people were killed, including the leader of a Sunni Arab militia allied with the United States, in a suicide attack in a town northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday, security and medical officials said.

Ten others were wounded in the attack on a coffee shop in Buhruz, 15 kilometres south of Baquba in Diyala province, according to Dr Ahmed Alwan from Baquba General Hospital and a Baquba security official who declined to be identified.

"We received eight bodies, and 10 other people were wounded," Dr Alwan said, adding that all of the dead and wounded were men.

Among the dead was Laith Mishaan, leader of one of many Sunni militias that turned against al-Qaeda and allied with the United States, a switch seen as critical to ending the sectarian bloodshed that engulfed Iraq in 2007 and 2008.

One of his bodyguards was also killed in the attack, while another was wounded.

The attack in Buhruz follows violence there a day earlier that left two sons of the mukhtar, or chief, dead and another injured.

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