30 Oct 2010

Suicide bomber kills 25 in Iraq

1:09 pm on 30 October 2010

A suicide bomber has killed at least 25 people in an attack in central Iraq and injured 70 others.

The attacker detonated an explosive vest after going into a popular coffee house in the mainly Shia town of Balad Ruz, north-east of the capital, Baghdad.

A spokesperson for Iraq's civil defence force says the cafe was destroyed, the BBC reports.

The blast is the first major bomb attack in Iraq in more than a month.