A suicide bombing in Iraq's volatile Diyala province ripped through a "reconciliation meeting" on Monday night attended by Sunni and Shiite militia leaders -- a brazen attack that killed and wounded dozens and fractured an effort to foster amity between the rival sects.Iraq's Interior Ministry and the U.S. military counted 24 dead and 37 wounded. Interior Ministry officials, who have been providing updates about the attack since it occurred, said the attacker detonated a suicide belt inside the Shifta Shiite mosque in western Baquba during the daily breaking of the Ramadan fast.
Abstention from eating is religious duty for Muslims during the present holy month of Ramadan and the hiatus is broken during an evening meal.
Families recovered bodies from the local morgue on Tuesday and funerals were held in Shifta for both the Shiites and Sunnis, who were among the dead.
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