Suicide bomber kills 15 at Iraqi council meeting

BAGHDAD, June 26 (Reuters) - A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at a tribal council meeting in the Iraqi town of Garma on Thursday, killing 15 people, including the chairman of the Garma tribal council, police said. Another 17 people were wounded in the blast in the town, 30 km (20 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Colonel Dawood al-Marawi, police spokesman in nearby Falluja, said. (Reporting by Fadhel al-Badrani, Ahmed Rasheed, Khalid al-Ansary; Writing by... [read full story]                    

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