22 killed in Iraq attacks: officials

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BAQUBA, Iraq (AFP) — Insurgents killed at least 22 people in Iraq on Tuesday in a series of bomb attacks, including a suicide attack that killed 16 people in a cafe near the restive city of Baquba, police and medics said.

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a cafe in the town of Al-Abbara, in the province of Diyala, killing 16 people and wounding 24, police Lieutenant Colonel Najim al-Sumadaie from Baquba told AFP.

Doctor Firaz al-Azzawi of Baquba hospital confirmed the toll.

In another incident, a bomber exploded his explosives-laden car at a police checkpoint in central Baquba, north of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding 15, a police officer said.

The dead included a policeman and three of the wounded were children, he added.

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