Suicide bomber detained in Diala

DIALA / IraqiNews.com: A suicide bomber, wearing an explosive belt, has been detained while trying to blow himself up on Saturday against a police checkpoint east of Diala Province, a Diala Province’s Police officer reported. “A Diala Police force has detained on Saturday a suicide bomber, wearing an explosive belt, in Miqdadiya township, 45 km to the east of Baaquba, the center of northeast Iraq’s Diala Province,” Colonel Ghalib Attiya told IraqiNews.com news agency. Colonel Attiya said that the “suicide bomber was detained while trying to blow himself up against a police checkpoint in Miqdadiya township,” giving no further details. Baaquba, the center of Diala Province, is 57 km to the northeast of Baghdad. SKH (TS)/SR 529