Suicide bombers kill 30 in attack on Iraqi police

TWO suicide bombers blew themselves up yesterday in a crowd of police officers south of Baghdad, killing up to 30 people and wounding dozens, while US forces briefly detained a Sunni political leader on the second day of an Iraqi-led security sweep in the capital.

Mohsen Abdul-Hamid, head of Iraq’s largest Sunni Arab political party and short-time president of the now-dissolved US-backed Iraqi Governing Council, was taken from his home in western Baghdad at about 6am by military forces, party officials said.

The US military later confirmed it had mistakenly arrested Abdul-Hamid, questioned him and released him shortly after.