A man strapped with explosives blew himself up among a group of Iraqi army recruits in Baghdad today, killing six people and wounding 25, police and hospital officials said.
Police sources said the bomber mingled with a crowd outside the recruiting centre at an abandoned airfield in the Muthana district of central Baghdad before detonating an explosive belt.
Officials at Yarmouk hospital, nearest to the site of the attack, said they had received six dead and 25 wounded.
The Muthana airfield recruiting centre has been attacked by suicide bombers several times in the past.
Insurgents in Iraq are increasingly using bombers strapped with explosives to carry out attacks. On Saturday, a suicide bomber blew himself up next to a fuel truck in a town south of Baghdad killing 98 people in a mass conflagration.