Updated at 2 am, Tuesday
BAGHDAD: Sixty-two people were killed around Iraq on Monday, 21 of them in a suicide attack on people waiting for their butane gas ration cards in the northern city of Tall Afar.
A suicide bomber, wearing an explosive belt, approached a crowd waiting for the ration cards in downtown Tall Afar, and exploded himself, a police official said. Two policemen were among the dead and 17 were wounded.
The day's other big attack came in Ramadi, where a bomber struck at around 4.30 pm in the Al-Hurriyah police station in the southwest of the Sunni Arab insurgent stronghold, killing 13 people, a police officer said.
In other attacks, 28 people were killed, including four members of a Shiite family shot dead by gunmen as they attempted to flee their homes north of Baghdad.
Tens of thousands of Iraqi and US security personnel have deployed on the streets of Baghdad since June in a bid to stem tit-for-tat sectarian violence between the ousted Sunni Arab elite and the newly empowered Shiite majority that has been daily costing dozens of lives.
