Baghdad suicide bombers kill 14

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 14 people including a senior figure from a US-backed Sunni group fighting al-Qaeda, security officials said.
In other violence in Baghdad, four people were killed when two roadside bombs exploded near university sites, they said.
At least 18 people were injured in the joint suicide attacks which targeted the offices of a Sunni organisation in Saba Abkar, a mixed neighbourhood in northern Baghdad, close to the strongly Sunni neighbourhood of Adhamiyah.
There has been a recent spate of suicide attacks in Iraq despite a general drop in violence over the past six months, which the US military says has seen a 62 percent fall in all types of attacks.
Interior and defence ministry officials said one suicide attacker wearing an explosive vest blew himself up at the officials in Saba Abkar, and then nearby a suicide car bomb exploded as the injured were being taken to hospital.
Abu Abed, military commander of the so-called Adhamiyah Awakening, said the head of the group, Colonel Riyadh al-Samarraie, and four guards were killed by the suicide bomber.