Bomb attacks in northeast Iraq kill 16

Suicide bombers attacked two police stations and a hospital in a city northeast of Baghdad today, killing at least 16 people and wounding 40 just days before parliamentary elections.

Police said two attackers drove explosives-packed cars at police stations in the centre and west of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of the capital, in volatile Diyala province where Sunni Islamist groups like al Qaeda still battle U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces.