Suicide bombs at a police academy and at a checkpoint in Iraq last night have left twenty-one people dead as insurgents up their attacks in the hope of postponing or derailing Iraq’s general election, to be held on the 30th of this month.
Police spokesperson Haidi Hatlif said that the first bomb went off when a suicide bomber drove their car into the police academy in Hilla – a town south of Baghdad in an area known as the “Triangle of Death.”
The second bomb, which killed six, went off at a checkpoint in Baquba in northern Iraq. Insurgents have killed 90 people so far this week.
