At least 25 mourners were killed Thursday when a suicide bomber targeted a funeral procession in Fallujah, state television al-Iraqiya reported. Dozens were injured in the bomb which went off as the mourners were bringing the bodies to the graveyard for burial in the restive western city of Fallujah, dpa reported. In Baghdad, one construction worker was killed when a bomb went off in a square in the eastern suburb of Sadr City where workers seeking employment assemble in the mornings. Initial witness reports had said that many had been killed in the bomb which injured 11. The police have cordoned off the square which has been the scene of five such attacks since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. South of the northern city of Kirkuk, six people were killed in an explosion, the news agency Aswat al-Iraq reported. Also on Thursday, the US military confirmed that a body found in the river Euphrates the previous day was the remains of one of three US soldiers abducted by militants on May 12 near Mahmudiya, according to Arab media. In other developments, the Iraqi parliament postponed Thursday a vote on the appointment of six new ministers until Sunday. The six "independents" were selected by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki after six ministers from the movement of the radical Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr resigned a month ago. The al-Sabah newspaper, which is close to the Iraqi government, reported Thursday that the government had handed over the commander of the Iraqi army in Baquba, 80 kilometres north-east of Baghdad, to the judiciary in Baquba. The general was allegedly accepting bribes to let dangerous terrorists out of prison.
