A roadside bomb hit a bus carrying workers, killing 11 people and wounding another 11, on Monday in the town of Khalis, northeast of Baghdad, police said.
The bomb exploded early in the morning, soon after the bus had left the station, as 44 workers were headed to jobs at the nearby Camp Ashraf, the home of the Mujahideen e-Khalq, an Iranian movement once supported by Saddam Hussein and hoping to overthrow the clerical government of Iran.
The movement has since been disarmed and confined to its camp by US forces.
The mixed Sunni-Shia province of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, has been wracked by violence - usually with sectarian overtones - directed against civilians, with a surge in attacks in the past week.
A bomb also went off in Baghdad, in the middle-class neighborhood of Karrada, killing one person and wounding three others, sources at the Ibn al-Nafis hospital said.
A police officer in Amara, south of Baghdad, was killed when assailants crept into his house under the cover of night and stabbed him to death.
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Diyala province Monday, May 29, 2006. AP
Iraq Bus Station Blast Kills 11
- Publish date:29/05/2006
- Section:WORLD HEADLINES