Suicide bombing strikes funeral in Iraq

At least 15 people have been killed and 40 more injured after a suicide bomber attacked a funeral in Baquba in central Iraq, according to local media.

Iraq's Alsumaria news website quoted local police sources as saying that the attack took place on Monday evening at the funeral of a tribal sheikh in a village near Baquba, 50km northeast of the capital Baghdad.

The attack comes after five people were killed overnight on Monday in two car bombs in Ramadi, 120km west of Baghdad.

Explosions in Iraq last week claimed the lives of up to 100 people, many of them Shia Muslim pilgrims commemorating the martyrdom of an eighth-century imam at a shrine in northern Baghdad.