Two suicide bombings, one involving a female attacker, left more than 50 people killed or injured on Wednesday in Iraq.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a tent on a funeral site at the Zaidan village of Abu Ghrab area, some 15 km west of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
The blast killed at least 20 mourners and wounded about 30others at the funeral held for the head of a local school, the source said.
It was not immediately clear why the funeral was targeted, but extremists in Iraq usually kill randomly.
The bombing came hours after it was announced that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was supervising an offensive against al-Qaida in the northern city of Mosul.
In another suicide explosion, a female attacker killed herself and an Iraqi Army captain and a soldier in the Yousfiya area, some20 km south of Baghdad, said the same source, adding four other soldiers were injured.
The U.S. military in Iraq confirmed in a statement that the woman attacked an Iraqi Army battle position in the morning, killing an Iraqi soldier and wounding seven others.
Source:Xinhua
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