Suicide Attack Kills 13 in Restaurant
Richard Rittierodt - All Headline News Contributor
Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - 13 People were killed and 17 more were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a restaurant in downtown Baghdad that is frequented by the police. According to Police Col. Abbas Mohammed, three of the dead were police officers. The explosion erupted at about 1:20pm when the restaurant would have been packed for lunch. The suicide bombing was part of a spree of attacks on Sunday that left 18 Iraqis dead and injured dozens more. The attack came as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki pledged to soon fill vacancies in his two key security ministries.
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