A suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest among mourners at a funeral in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 32 people and injuring 21, police said.
All 32 people killed by the suicide bomber were men, police and ambulance officials said.
Elsewhere, the bodies of a Sunni policeman and four of his family members were found on the outskirts of a village north of Baghdad early Tuesday, just hours after they were kidnapped from their home by unknown gunmen, authorities said, according to the AP. Tuesday's attack happened on the northern outskirts of Jalula, a city 80 miles northeast of Baghdad.
An unknown number of gunmen attacked the policeman's home at dawn. Authorities found his body and that of his father, two brothers and a cousin about two hours later, a local policeman said. Hours later in the same province, a Shiite man and his 16-year-old son where killed in a drive-by shooting, police said. The two were standing outside their home in Tahwelah, about 19 miles east of Baqouba.
Late Monday, Iraq's government published statistics on the number of civilians and security force members it said were killed last year. According to the health, defense and interior ministries, 16,232 civilians, 432 soldiers and about 1,300 Iraqi policeman died in 2007. The year before, the ministries said that 12,371 civilians, 603 soldiers and 1,224 policeman were killed by violence.
