Al Jazeera, 05 Oct 2013 – At least 13 people have been killed and 32 injured in a suicide attack on a cafe in the northern Iraqi town of Balad, police say.
The AFP news agency said it was the same cafe where a suicide bomber struck in August, killing 16 people.
In separate attacks, two television journalists were shot dead and three members of an anti-al-Qaeda militia were also killed on Saturday.
The reporter and a cameraman for the privately owned Al-Sharqiya television channel were shot while working in the northern city of Mosul, according to police.
The militia members, who belonged to the government-backed Sunni Sahwa (Awakening) group, were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Yousufiya, south of Baghdad.
Violence has reached a level unseen since 2008, and there are fears Iraq may relapse into the kind of intense Sunni-Shia bloodshed that peaked in 2006-2007 and killed tens of thousands of people.