Suicide bomber kills eight as 19 Iraqis die in attacks

A SUICIDE bomber detonated an explosive belt yesterday in a line of Iraqis waiting to receive government payments, killing eight people and wounding about 30, including children, police said.

Eleven other people were killed in attacks elsewhere in the country, including five members of a Shi’ite religious party and four policemen, among them a colonel.

The suicide attack occurred in a mostly Shi’ite eastern district of Baghdad as people lined up at a bank yesterday morning to receive government checks to compensate for incomplete food rations.