(dpa) - A female suicide bomber blew herself up Monday near the home of a chief of tribal police in the restive Diyala province in Iraq, killing him, according to a spokesman for a local tribal squad.
"A female bomber wearing an explosive vest targeted the house of Sheykh Thair Taban al-Kharkhi, the head of the tribal police unit in the town of Canan," the spokesman Shukr al-Shumari told the Voices of Iraq news agency.
Canan is in Baquba, 60 kilometres north-east of the capital Baghdad.
Tribal police units are formed and funded by the US military mainly in Sunni Arab areas to fight loyalists of the al-Qaeda terrorist network.