Suicide bomber kills 20 in Iraq

A suicide bomber strapped with explosives killed 20 people waiting outside a police recruiting centre for special forces in Iraq’s capital today, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

The attacker wore an explosives-laden belt and blew himself up outside the recruiting centre in west Baghdad’s Yarmouk neighbourhood, said police Col. Adnan Abdul Rahman, an Interior Ministry spokesman. Most of those killed were recruits, he said.