A suicide bomber has attacked a Sunni militia group in Iraq, killing at least nine people and wounding 31 others.
Militiamen from an Awakening council were waiting to collect their salaries at an army post in Iskandariya, 50km south of Baghdad, when the bomber struck.
The US-sponsored Awakening councils have helped cut violence in Iraq after turning against al-Qaeda.
The BBC reports the past week has seen a number of attacks in Baghdad and Mosul to the north. But the general security situation remains much better than it was two years ago.
