Six killed in Iraq's Diyala province

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BAQUBA, Iraq (AFP) — Insurgents killed six people in Iraq's Diyala province on Tuesday, including three in a series of attacks which began with the killing of a member of an anti-Qaeda group, local police said.

Early on Tuesday, gunmen targeted a checkpoint in the village of Al-Abbara, south of Diyala's capital city of Baquba, and killed one member of a local anti-Qaeda group who was manning the checkpoint, a police officer said.

The gunmen then carried his body to a house and bombed it, killing a neighbour, the officer said on condition of anonymity.

Later, in an attack on the checkpoint victim's funeral procession, another man was killed by a roadside bomb, which also wounded eight people, including a policeman and three children.

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