A suicide bomber rammed an ambulance packed with explosives into a security headquarters in central Iraq, killing 13 people. Firaz al-Dulaimi, a hospital doctor, said a further 64 people were wounded in the attack, which targeted an office of the Force Protection Service, the agency responsible for securing Iraq’s government buildings. The attack occurred at around 10:00 am on Wednesday in the middle of a restive ethnically-mixed city north of Baghdad called Baquba, and came a day after a suicide bomber killed 50 people at a police recruitment centre in the central city of Tikrit. Baquba is the capital of Diyala province, which was an Al-Qaeda stronghold as recently as 2008. While violence has dropped off dramatically both in Diyala and nationwide since then, the province remains one of Iraq's least secure. Pray: for reconciliation to be achieved in all the various areas of conflict; and for God’s people to be used in the spiritual and physical rebuilding of the country. (Jer.24:6)