Five women were killed and three men wounded on Monday when a roadside bomb exploded next to their vehicle in the central Iraqi province of Diyala, a witness and a doctor said. The attack occurred as they were driving in a pick-up truck near Al-Wajihiyah, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) east of the restive city of Baquba, said 27-year-old passenger Shaalan Mutni Ahmed.
"We left this morning and four women were going to the doctor and one was going shopping in Al-Wajhiyah. Before we reached the Al-Wajhiyah the bomb exploded," said Ahmed. Ahmed Alwan, a doctor at the local hospital, said he had received the bodies of four women and that the fifth had died in the emergency room.