காபி கடையில் தற்கொலை குண்டுதாரி வெடித்து 20 குர்துகள் கொலை.

காபி கடையில் தற்கொலை குண்டுதாரி வெடித்து 20 குர்துகள் கொலை. 30 பேர் படுகாயம்.

சுன்னி அரபுகள் தொடர்ந்து குர்துகளை தாக்கி வருகிறார்கள்.

Bomb Blast Kills 20 in Iraq


Baghdad, May 23--A bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up inside a coffee shop east of Baghdad Wednesday morning, killing at least 20 people and wounding 30 others.


Police said the blast hit a restaurant in Mandali, a mainly Kurd town about 100 km northeast of Baghdad near the Iranian border.

The bomber was wearing a suicide vest when he walked into the restaurant in the city.

Elsewhere, two US Marines were killed in combat operations in Anbar province, the US military said.

The Marines, who died Tuesday, were assigned to forces responsible for the province, the statement added without giving more details.

In other news, the half-naked body of one of three missing US soldiers was found on Wednesday in the Euphrates River in the town of Mussayab south of Baghdad, police said.

The US military said it was investigating reports that a body had been found in a canal in the area.

Thousands of US and Iraqi troops having been scouring farmlands through an area south of Baghdad since an ambush on May 12 in which four US soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were killed.