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BAGHDAD, April 11 (UPI) -- Nine people were killed and 31 injured Saturday in Iraq when a suicide bomber set off an explosive at an Awakening Council headquarters, officials said.
Iraq's interior ministry said the bomber targeted a facility in the town of al-Iskandariya, about 24 miles south of Baghdad, while Awakening Council members were there to collect their salaries, CNN reported.
The government statement said that among those killed and wounded were Iraqi soldiers and members of the Awakening Councils.
The councils are primarily a Sunni movement of former anti-U.S. military insurgents or sympathizers who were turned against al-Qaida. They have been credited with playing a key role in suppressing acts of terror in Iraq, the U.S. broadcaster said.
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