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| Iraq |
| Bomb kills 2 Politicians in Disputed Iraqi Town |
| 2013-03-27 |
| [An Nahar] A roadside kaboom on Tuesday destroyed an armored car killing two local politicians and badly wounding a third in a disputed town north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , officials said. The kaboom struck just north of the town of Tuz Khurmatu, 175 kilometers (110 miles) from the capital, and also killed one of the group's bodyguards and maimed another, according to a police colonel and a medic at the local hospital. Town mayor Shallal Abdul, city council chief Abdulqader Naimi and Salaheddin provincial councilor Rashid Khorshid had been traveling together to inspect a road paving project north of Tuz when the bomb went off. Naimi and Khorshid, both candidates in provincial elections due to be held on April 20, were killed, and Abdul was badly maimed and transported to a hospital in the Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah. Tuz Khurmatu lies at the center of a tract of disputed territory that is claimed by both the mostly-Arab central government in Storied Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdish region. |
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