Suicide bomber hits Iraq village

A suicide bomber has killed 16 people and injured many others in a village in Iraq's Diyala province on a day which saw at least six other violent deaths.

The bomber set off a vest packed with explosives inside a popular coffee shop in the village of al-Abbara, north of the city of Baquba, police said.

Al-Qaeda militants have been fighting security forces and tribes in the area.

In a separate attack in Baquba, a suicide car bomber struck a checkpoint, killing a policeman and a civilian.

Fifteen people were wounded in the blast in central Baquba, three of them children, police said.

The incidents followed attacks in Diyala on Monday in which at least four people were killed.

They are the latest in a number of attacks in Diyala province, where al-Qaeda militants have been fighting government forces and local tribal groups.

Also on Tuesday, a car bomb aimed at a police patrol in Baghdad went off, killing four people and wounding seven others.