A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives in a village in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 15 people, while two died in other attacks, officials said.
The suicide bombing tore through a residential area of Al Muwaffaqiyah, a village east of Mosul that is mainly populated by members of the Shabak minority.
A bomb also exploded near the house of a Shabak family in Mosul itself, killing a child and wounding three people, while a policeman was gunned down in his home south of the city. The 30,000-strong Shabak community mostly live near IraqÂ’s border with Turkey. |
