16 dead in Iraq suicide attacks

A suicide bomber rammed an ambulance packed with explosives into a security headquarters on Wednesday, killing 14 people in the second major attack against Iraqi forces in as many days. Another suicide attack in a nearby town killed two others and wounded a top provincial official, shattering a relative calm in Iraq since the formation of a new government by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki last month.
The blast killed 14 people and wounded 120 others, according to Faris al-Azzawi, a spokesman for the provincial health department. The morning bombing in central Baquba, a restive and ethnically mixed city north of Baghdad, targeted an office of the Force Protection Service (FPS), the agency responsible for securing government buildings. The explosion also damaged nearby buildings, including Al-Batool women and children's hospital, an AFP journalist said.