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A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt blew himself up inside a coffee house in Bahraz District, southern Baaquba, on Tuesday night, targeting the region’s Sahwa leader Layth Mashaan, killing him and nine others, a source from Diyala Operations Room said.
One of Mashaan’s security guards was wounded as well, the source added.
A bomb explosion targeting an army patrol in Al Rashad District, western Kirkuk, killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded four others, Kirkuk Districts Police Chief Major Sarhad Qader said.
Shaker Mahmoud, a leader of Al Qaeda-linked Ansar Al Sunna Group, was arrested, Qader added.
The arrested is one of the wanted for terrorist crimes, he noted, affirming that Mahmoud was found in his house in Al Awadiya village, southwestern Kirkuk.
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