Two suicide bombings killed five people on Monday in Diyala province -- the volatile Iraq province that has been a major battleground in the war, police said.In the first attack, an 18-year-old woman blew herself up about 8 a.m. outside the home of a tribal sheik, killing the sheik, his 5-year-old niece and one of his guards.
The sheik led one of many Awakening Councils -- the largely Sunni local security groups enlisted to fight insurgents, police said. Military spokesman Rear Adm. Gregory Smith told reporters in Baghdad on Sunday more than 90,000 Iraqis have joined such "citizen volunteer groups."
That bombing happened in the town of Kanan, about 12 miles east of Baquba.
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