Two bombings killed at least 25 people at a checkpoint outside a provincial Iraqi governor's house on Tuesday in the latest attack targeting local government and security forces. The suicide bomber blew himself up and a car bomb exploded outside the Diwaniya governor's house, 150 km (95 miles) south of Baghdad, just as guards changed shifts.
Most of the victims were security staff, officials said. Television footage showed the crumpled and burnt out wreckage of a white truck lying by the remains of a guard post. Bloodied and wounded security guards filled the beds of a hospital. Five more people were killed and nine wounded in a separate attack on Tuesday when a bomb exploded in a restaurant in Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
In the city of Ramadi, about 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad in mainly Sunni Anbar province, a police bomb squad was called to defuse two car bombs placed a few hundred metres from government buildings. The first was deactivated, but the second exploded, wounding one officer, police said.
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