At least 25 killed in suicide attack on Kurdish funeral, scores injured

At least 25 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a suicide bombing on a funeral in north-eastern Iraq's volatile Diyala province, police said, adding that the toll would most likely rise.At least 25 people were killed and 50 wounded in a suicide bomb attack as a Kurdish family was receiving condolences northeast of the Iraqi capital on Monday, local officials said. The attack took place in Jalawla, 130 kilometres (80 miles) from Baghdad. Jalawla, in the dangerous province of Diyala, is home to a mixed population of Shiite Kurds and Sunni Arabs, many of them close to al Qaeda. Mohammed Osman, a local official in Khanaqin to the north of Jalawla, said the bombing happened as a local family was receiving condolences.