Bomb at Iraq’s Governor House

Officials have declared that 21 people were killed on Tuesday as a car bomb exploded outside a local governor’s house in central Iraq’s Diwaniya city, the latest attack on a provincial government building.

“A car bomb targeted one of the entrances to the governor’s house and the initial death toll is 21 killed at a guard’s checkpoint,” said Fadhel Mawat, a spokesman for the provincial council.

A source at a hospital in the city Diwaniya, 150 km (95 miles) south of Baghdad, said at least 20 people had been killed and more than 30 wounded in the attack.