BAQUBA: Omar al-Humairi, the governor of Iraq’s violence-ridden Diyala province, sustained injuries in a suicide car attack on Saturday, two of his guards were killed while six other people were also injured in the attack, police and doctors said.
The violent incident occurred when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at Governor Omar al-Humairi’s house in Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, injuring him, killing two of his guards and wounding six others, a police official said.
Humairi, a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party, became governor of Diyala, a province that suffers frequent attacks by militants, in September.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but Sunni militants linked to the Al-Qaeda franchise in Iraq often target the security forces and government officials, and suicide bombings are a hallmark of the group.
Also on Saturday, Sheikh Hassan Hadi al-Janabi, a provincial elections candidate in Babil province, was killed south of Baghdad by a magnetic “sticky bomb” along with two of his relatives, a police captain and a doctor said.
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