TEHRAN -- A Saudi Arabian terrorist who had been attempting to plant a bomb in Diyala Province has been arrested and his three accomplices killed in a shootout with security forces, a senior Iraqi police official announced on Sunday.

Diyala Province Police Chief Abdul-Hussein al-Shemri said the Saudi national is being interrogated, the Voice of Iraq website reported.
The deadliest of three suicide attacks in the area on Thursday struck a restaurant filled with Iranian pilgrims. The toll in that attack rose to 57, with Iranians making up the majority of the dead