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A suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives has killed 15 people in a town near Baghdad. A female suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives has killed 16 people in a town near Baghdad.
At least 20 people were wounded in the blast at Muqdadiya, 90km (55 miles) north-east of Iraq's capital. At least 20 people were wounded in the blast at 0930 local time (0630 GMT) in Muqdadiya, which is 90km (55 miles) north-east of Iraq's capital.
Among those killed were 10 members of a Concerned Local Citizens militia, security officials said. The bomber struck at the office of a local Sunni Arab anti-al-Qaeda militia, killing 10 members of the group.
The groups are an alliance of clans that back US forces and the Iraqi government in their efforts to reclaim Iraqi provinces from al-Qaeda. Police say she was a local woman who was once a member of executed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
She was targeting one of the so-called Awakening Councils, militias that have backed US forces and the Iraqi government in their efforts to reclaim Iraqi provinces from al-Qaeda.
Fragile securityFragile security
Correspondents say recent months have seen a sharp and sustained drop in all forms of violence in most parts of Iraq. A female suicide bomber previously struck at Muqdadiya in April this year, walking into a crowd at a police recruitment centre and killing more than a dozen people.
The US troop surge in and around Baghdad, which started in February, has been credited with this. The BBC's Crispin Thorold in Baghdad says Diyala has been the focus of some of the fiercest clashes in Iraq in recent months.
Insurgents displaced from their former strongholds in Anbar province and parts of Baghdad are now thought to be in Diyala, says our correspondent.
Recent months have seen a sharp and sustained drop in all forms of violence in most parts of Iraq, analysts say.
The US troop surge of 30,000 extra troops in and around Baghdad, which started in February, has been credited with this.
But senior US commanders in Iraq have warned recent gains could be fragile.But senior US commanders in Iraq have warned recent gains could be fragile.
In April this year, more than a dozen people died in Muqdadiya when a woman bomber walked into a crowd at a police recruitment centre.