At least 24 people have been killed in three separate bomb attacks in Iraq over the past day.
A suicide driver killed three Iraqi policemen and wounded 20 people when he detonated his car at a police headquarters in Basra today.
A resident carries his wounded sister after car bomb attacks in Baghdad today. Image: Reuters.
Two parked car bombs also went off, nearly simultaneously, in a street in eastern Baghdad, killing six civilians and wounding 20 people, police said.
In Baquba, a suicide bomber struck a US-promoted reconciliation meeting of Shia and Sunni tribal sheikhs last night killing at least 15 people, including the city's police chief, and wounding about 30 others.
The violence comes amid continued friction between Iraqi and US officials over the September 16th killing of 11 Iraqi civilians - allegedly by Blackwater USA security guards in Baghdad - and the US troops' arrest last week of an Iranian officer who the Iraqis claim was there by official invitation.
The US military said the man is suspected of being a member of Iran's paramilitary Quds Force, accused by the US of arming Shia militias in Iraq.
AP