BAQUBA, Iraq, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Up to 32 people were killed and some 135 others were wounded in a suicide bombing and two car bombs targeting security forces in a town in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala on Sunday, a provincial security source told Xinhua.
The attack occurred before noon when two booby-trapped cars detonated and followed by a suicide bomber who blew up himself outside a police headquarters in the town of Qara-Tabba, about 175 km northeast of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, the source said on condition of anonymity.
"Our latest reports said that the number of casualties reached 32 killed, including 11 Kurdish security members and two members of town council, in addition to 135 wounded people," the source said.
Many of the wounded were women and children who were displaced from their homes at the battle grounds in the province and were gathered to collect one million Iraqi Dinar (830 U.S. dollars) as relief money from the Iraqi government, the source added.
Diyala province, which stretches from the eastern edges of Baghdad to the Iranian border in east of the country, has long been a volatile area since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 despite repeated military operations against the militant groups.
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