Baghdad suicide bombing kills 28

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BAGHDAD, April 23 (AFP): Twenty-eight people, including children, were killed in a suicide attack on a police patrol in southeastern Baghdad Thursday, defence and interior ministry officials told the news agency.
"Iraqi police were distributing aid to displaced families when a suicide bomber blew himself up," an interior ministry official said. "At least 10 police and five children are among 28 dead."
Fifty-two people were also wounded in the blast, defence and interior ministry officials said.
A second interior ministry source said the suicide bomber was a woman, but this could not immediately be confirmed.
A hospital official told newsmen that families were fighting to discover if their relatives were listed as dead on a casualty list.
Sixteen people, including the 10 policemen, five children and a woman, were confirmed dead at the hospital, he said, with 25 wounded receiving treatment there.
Security has improved dramatically in Iraq over the past two years but attacks targeting security forces are still common in some parts of the country, including the capital.
Iraq has witnessed a number of deadly attacks in April.