The Interior Ministry said the bomber blew himself up in the town of Ain al-Tamr on November 14 after security forces killed five of his accomplices and surrounded him in a house. The sixth attacker broke into a house in the city's Ayn al-Tamer neighborhood, where he detonated his suicide vest, killing six people and wounding another six, Maan said. The city, where Imam Hussein and his brother are buried, is located some 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of Baghdad. A suicide attack near the Defense Ministry in Kabul has killed at least four people and wounded 11, according to an Afghan official.
A suicide bomber kills six people near Karbala.