Iraq: At least 22 wounded, 60 injured in election-related suicide bombing
| Baquba
At least 22 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a busy election campaign tent in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Saturday, police and medics said.
Another 60 people were wounded in the attack, which began with a hand grenade being thrown into the tent in Baquba, 40 miles northeast of the capital聽.
Local elections are due to be held across聽聽later in April, but have already been delayed in two Sunni Muslim-majority provinces due to security concerns.
Candidates in聽聽often put up tents during campaigning as a venue to meet potential voters and explain their policies.
, the Sunni candidate whose tent was targeted on Saturday, was not hurt in the attack.
At least 10 candidates have been killed in recent weeks, most of them from the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc led by former Prime Minister聽, a secular Shi'ite politician.
A decade after U.S. and Western troops swept into聽聽to remove President聽,听聽is still struggling with violence, sectarian tensions and political instability among its main Shi'ite, Sunni and ethnic Kurdish components.
Additional reporting by Raheem Salman; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Alistair Lyon
