October 14, 2009 6:01 AM

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Suicide attack kills 10 people in Iraqi city

In Iraq, ten people including two Iraqi soldiers and the leader of a Sunni Arab militia allied with the United States were killed in bombings across Iraq on Tuesday.<br/><br/>Official sources said fourteen others were wounded in the attacks in the village of Buhruz, northeast of Baghdad.<br/><br/>In the deadliest incident, a suicide bomber exploded a belt-full of explosives in a coffee shop in Buhruz, 15 kilometres south of Baquba in Diyala province, killing eight people and leaving 10 others injured.<br/><br/>Among the dead was Laith Mishaan, leader of one of many Sunni militias that turned against Al-Qaeda and allied with the United States.<br/><br/>The attack in the predominantly Sunni town follows a bombing there a day earlier that left two sons of the village's mukhtar, or chief, dead and one other injured.

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