VOA News 18 July 2010
Officials in Iraq say two suicide bombers killed at least 46 people Sunday in separate attacks against an anti-al-Qaida militia group.
Officials said a suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday morning at an office of the government-backed Sunni militia, known as Sons of Iraq, (or Sahwa,) in Radwaniya, a mostly Sunni district southwest of Baghdad. The blast killed 43 people and wounded 40 others.
Police said a second bomber killed at least three people at a meeting of local Sunni militia leaders in the town of Qaim, near the Syrian border.
There has been no claim of responsibility for the attacks.
A surge of violence has hit Baghdad since March parliamentary elections that yielded no clear winner. Security officials blame the string of attacks on al-Qaida in Iraq, raising fears the country's political uncertainty is fueling insurgent violence.
Some information for this report provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.
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