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Suicide bomb blasts shake Kirkuk
 Kirkuk, 16 July (AKI) - At least 80 people have been killed and dozens wounded after bomb blasts rocked the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk. Iraqi police said that in one of the blasts Monday a suicide truck bomber attacked a crowded market near the office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the party of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.A second bomb had been detonated in a car parked in a busy street near an office of the ministry of transport. Police said the number of dead and injured in both attacks is expected to rise. The Arab TV network, al-Arabiya, said authorities had difficulty counting the dead and were transporting the injured to local hospitals. Witnesses to the attack on the PUK office said the massive explosion there left a crater several metres deep. More than 20 cars were destroyed, two buildings collapsed completely and a number of shops were also damaged, local news reports said. Meanwhile, in the capital Baghdad, a series of attacks on Monday morning killed at least nine people. In the deadliest of the attacks, a roadside bomb hit an Iraqi army patrol on the city's north-eastern outskirts, killing five soldiers and wounding nine others. Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-07-16 |
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