At lease 25 people were killed and 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a coffee house in the town of Balad Ruz in Central Iraq's restive Diyala province late on Friday, a police official said on Saturday.
"Twenty-five people were killed and 70 wounded... when a suicide bomber detonated a belt filled with explosive at a coffee house in the centre of the city at 9 pm (1800 GMT)," said Balad Ruz police chief Major Ahmed al-Tamimi.
Among the casualties were three women and two children, he said. The number of such attacks throughout Iraq has fallen since 2008 when diyala province was an Al Qaeda stronghold.
Although Al Qaeda has lost ground, the province remains one of the most restive since the 2003 US-led invasion. The attack took place in a region with a Kurdish Shia majority.