Suicide bomber kills seven at police checkpoint
Seven people have died in a suicide car bombing at a police checkpoint in Diyala province, north-east of Baghdad, according to Iraqi police.
Police Colonel Ahmed Khalifa, chief of Jalula police station, says one police officer and six civilians are dead.
The attack today in Jalula also injured five police and two civilians.
The checkpoint that was targeted is near a military base and an office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, a Kurdish political party.
The attack came several hours after Iraq’s Cabinet approved a security pact with the US that will allow American forces to stay in Iraq for three years after their UN mandate expires on December 31.
