Suicide bomber kills and injures dozens outside police academy

A suicide bomber has killed at least 28 people queuing outside a police recruitment centre in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. At least 57 other people were wounded in the attack, carried out by a bomber on a motorcycle. The attack happened at about 1000 local time(0700 GMT) in the middle of a crowd outside the police academy on Palestine Street. Reports suggest the bomber detonated a belt of explosives as he crashed his motorbike into a line of people waiting at the side entrance to the training centre. Most of the dead were police recruits, while others were serving officers and civilians.