A suicide bomber has killed at least 15 people and wounded 29 near a mosque in a mainly Sunni part of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, security sources say.
The attacker rode up on a motorcycle before setting off a bomb in the Adhamiya district.
The dead include Faruq Abu Omar, a local leader of a US-backed Sunni militia fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq.
The BBC's correspondent in Baghdad notes that suicide bombings are still a daily occurrence in Iraq.
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"I carried my nephew in my arms to the hospital," Ahmed Abu Uday said by telephone, weeping as he spoke.
"He was alive until we reached the hospital and his blood stained my clothes."
The same man reported carrying 10 wounded people in his car to hospital.
The militia, known as the Sons of Iraq, is paid by US forces to protect neighbourhoods in areas where the local tribes have turned against al- Qaeda, Reuters reports.
"What happened is what we feared would happen, because this area was the stronghold of al-Qaeda in Adhamiya," Mr Abu Uday added.
"We killed them, we captured them. We destroyed them. And we expected they would seek revenge."
(BBC)
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