27 January 2012
Last updated at 07:14 ET
The bomber struck as mourners and police cars went past
A suicide car bomber has killed at least 32 people and injured about 60 in a predominantly Shia Muslim district of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
The bomb went off in a market place as a funeral procession was passing in the city’s Zafaraniya district.
A security official told Reuters the bomber had initially attempted to attack a police station.
Attacks in Iraq have risen since US troops left last month, with 16 people killed in attacks on Thursday.
‘Taxi bomber’
The suicide attacker struck as mourners escorted by police cars were transporting the body of a man shot a day earlier for burial, police said.
“It was a huge explosion,” Salam Hussein, a 42-year-old grocery store owner, was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency.
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Ayman Rabiyah
