At least 25 people were killed and 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a coffee house in the town of Balad Ruz in central Iraq's restive Diyala province on Friday, a police official said.
"Twenty-five people were killed and 70 wounded … when a suicide bomber detonated a belt filled with explosives at a coffee house in the centre of the city at 9:00 pm (1800 GMT)," said Balad Ruz police chief Major Ahmed al-Tamimi.
Among the casualties were three women and two children, he said.
The number of such attacks throughout Iraq has fallen since 2008 when Diyala province was an Al-Qaeda stronghold. Although Al-Qaeda has lost ground, the province remains one of the most restive since the 2003 US-led invasion.
The attack took place in a region with a Kurdish Shiite majority.
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