Suicide bombers have used an ambulance to attack a police in Iraq

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Suicide bombers have used an ambulance to attack a police compound in

central Iraq, killing up to 12 people, reports say.

Many more were wounded in the attack in Baquba - the second targeting

Iraq's security forces in two days.

On Tuesday, a suicide bomber killed some 60 people at a police recruitment

centre in Tikrit, the hometown of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

Violence in Iraq has ebbed in recent years, but deadly attacks persist.

Both Baquba - 65km (40 miles) north-east of Baghdad - and Tikrit are

within what is known as the Sunni Triangle, a stronghold of Iraq's insurgency.

In a separate attack on Wednesday, a suicide bomber targeted Shia pilgrims

travelling on foot from Baghdad to the holy city of Karbala, killing at

least two people and injuring 15.

'Bodies buried'

Continue reading the main story Timeline: Recent Iraq attacks 25 August

2010: String of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces and checkpoints

across the country kill more than 5019 September 2010: Series of bomb attacks in

two neighbourhoods of Baghdad kill more than 2031 October 2010: Botched

hostage-taking at Our Lady of Salvation Syriac Catholic church in Baghdad

kills 502 November 2010: Series of Baghdad bomb attacks kill 70 people18

January 2011: Suicide bomb attack on Tikrit police recruitment centre kills at

least 60

Most of those killed in Wednesday morning's Baquba attack were police,

officials said.

Two attackers were thought to have been involved. One stepped out of the

ambulance and opened fire on guards at the entrance of the city's special

security police centre before the vehicle was driven into the compound and

detonated, reports said.

More than 60 injuries were reported, and more people are said to be buried

under rubble after the explosion caused a building to collapse.

" There are more bodies buried in the ruins, " a spokeswoman for Diyala's

governor told Reuters news agency.

Iraqi police and army recruiting centres are often targeted by suicide

bombers.

Anti-Shia attacks had been feared ahead of next week's commemoration of

Arbain - a 40-day mourning period observed by Shia Muslims for Imam Hussein,

a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad killed at the battle of Karbala in the

7th Century.

Security has been stepped up ahead of the climax of the Shia pilgrimage

next week, when hundreds of thousands of pilgrims are expected to converge on

Karbala.

Overall violence in Iraq has fallen sharply since the height of the

sectarian killings of 2006-07, but shootings and bombings remain a daily

occurrence.

US forces formally ended their combat operations last August, ahead of a

planned full withdrawal later this year.

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