At least 25 killed in Iraqi violence

A suicide bomber rammed a police checkpoint in northern Iraq with an explosives-laden vehicle today, killing more than a dozen people, the deadliest attack on a day when at least 25 people died in violence around the country.

More victims of Iraq’s Shiite-Sunni violence were found, with seven bullet-riddled bodies in Baghdad, where US and Iraqi troops have been trying for more than a month to put down sectarian killings in an intensified neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood sweep.