IRAQ:A suicide car bomber drove into a crowd of mourners at a funeral in Falluja, Iraq, yesterday, killing at least 27 people and wounding dozens.
In the Iraqi capital, gunmen stopped a minibus in the mainly Shia Husseiniya district and shot dead all 11 passengers.
They then planted a bomb among the bodies that exploded when police arrived, killing two people and wounding four, including two police officers.
The attacks came despite a major security crackdown focused on Baghdad.
The US military confirmed that a body pulled from the Euphrates river south of Baghdad on Wednesday was one of three US soldiers missing since their patrol was ambushed on May 12th.
Thousands of troops continued to scour farmland for the other two.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in Falluja, 50km (30 miles) west of Baghdad in restive Anbar province, but police said the funeral was for a local businessman opposed to al-Qaeda.
Al-Qaeda is waging a campaign of bombings and shootings against Sunni Arab tribal leaders, politicians and others in western Anbar who have formed an alliance against them.
As mourners walked down a street holding aloft the coffin of Allawi al-Isawi, the bomber drove into the crowd and blew himself up.
A doctor at a local hospital, Ahmed al-Ani, said 27 were killed and more than 30 wounded.
Another hospital source put the death toll from the bombing at 30.