Suicide attacks kill at least 16, wound dozens in Iraq

On Tuesday, January 18 a pair of suicide attacks killed 16 people, a suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into the Force Protection Service building, this is the security agency responsible for protecting the country's government institutions, here at lest 13 died and 70 were wounded. In south of Baquba a suicide bomber wearing a vest detonated near a convoy carrying the deputy head of Diyala's provincial council, Sadiq al-Husseini, these attack killed 3 people and wounded 26 others, this explosion occurred during the procession of Shiite pilgrims.

All of these bloody attacks came after a suicide bomber detonated in the police station killing at least 65 people and injured 120.