(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at Governor Omar al-Humairi's house in Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, wounding him, killing two of his guards and injuring six more, a police lieutenant colonel and a doctor said, AFP reported.
Humairi, a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party, became governor of Diyala, a province that suffers frequent attacks by militants, in September.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, but militants linked to the Al-Qaeda franchise in Iraq often target the security forces and government officials, and suicide bombings are a hallmark of the group.
Also on Saturday, Sheikh Hassan Hadi al-Janabi, a provincial elections candidate in Babil province, was killed South of Baghdad by a magnetic "sticky bomb" along with two of his relatives, a police captain and a doctor said.
While violence in Iraq has decreased significantly since its peak in 2006 and 2007, attacks remain common.
A week earlier, a series of car bombs killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens of others in Shiite Muslim areas of Baghdad, officials said.
The attacks mostly targeted outdoor markets. Officials said that all of the blasts were caused by parked car bombs, Aljazeera reported.
The detonation of a parked car loaded with explosives in the sprawling Shiite district of Sadr City heralded the start of the attacks late on Sunday morning. Two more parked cars later exploded elsewhere in the poor neighborhood.
Other blasts erupted in the Baghdad neighborhood of al-Amin, in an open-air market in Husseiniya, just Northeast of the capital, and in the Kamaliya area in Baghdad's Eastern suburbs.
Police and hospital officials provided the death toll, saying nearly 88 people were wounded in the blasts.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
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