BOMB AT MARKET IN NORTHERN IRAQ KILLS 22
Baku, May 22 (AZERTAC). A minivan packed with explosives blew up at a crowded market in Iraq`s troubled northern Diyala province on Friday, killing at least 23 people and wounding 53 others, police said.
The attack took place near a crowded cafe just steps from the headquarters of a police rapid-response unit in the town of Khalis, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
The bomb exploded around sunset when the area was filled with shoppers.
Overall violence in Iraq has dropped sharply since the sectarian slaughter of 2006-07 but bombings are still a regular occurrence and the insurgency unleashed by the 2003 U.S. invasion remains entrenched in mainly Sunni Diyala and other parts of northern Iraq.
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