DHULUIYAH: Four people were killed and 13 others wounded on Wednesday when a suicide bomber targeted a US-allied militia leader at a mosque north of the Iraqi capital, security officials told media. The explosion happened in Dhuluiyah, 70 kilometres (45 miles) from Baghdad, said a police colonel, speaking on condition of anonymity, giving a final toll of four dead and 13 wounded."It's an action of Al-Qaeda because only this organisation is committing suicide attacks," he said. An interior ministry source earlier said that five people had been killed. The attacker detonated his explosives-filled vest during evening prayers at around 8 pm (1700 GMT) in the Sunni town, in an attempt to kill Mullah Nadhem, a local US-allied Sahwa "Awakening" leader, the colonel said. Nadhem was not present but his brother was wounded in the attack. A bomb at the mosque last year also failed to kill Nadhem although he was wounded. Violence has fallen sharply over the past two years as US and Iraqi forces have allied with the Sahwa, local tribes and former insurgents, to bring calm to vast swathes of the country. But attacks remain common in some areas.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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