Suicide bomber kills 25 south of Baghdad: police

© AFP | Iraqi security forces stand guard during a protest on March 25, 2016, outside the main gates of Baghdad's Green Zone

HILLA (IRAQ) (AFP) - 

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd Friday after a local football game in a village south of Baghdad, killing at least 25 people, police and medics said.

"They were just handing the trophy to the winners, the suicide attacker blew himself up in the crowd," a police captain from the village, Al-Asriya, told AFP.

A medical source at Iskandariyah hospital confirmed the toll.

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