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| Iraq |
| Suicide kaboom in Samarra kills three |
| 2015-01-14 |
| Baghdad -- A suicide bomber killed three militiamen in the Iraqi city of Samarra in the first such attack in the heavily defended pilgrimage centre in months, medical and security sources said on Tuesday. Another 13 people were wounded in the Monday evening attack on a checkpoint outside a school in the city centre that the militiamen were using as a barracks, the sources said. Militants attacked Samarra during a lightning offensive spearheaded by the militant group in which they captured much of the Iraq heartland north and west of Baghdad last June. The 2006 bombing of the Al Askari shrine in Samarra by militants of Al Qaeda sparked a brutal sectarian conflict in which tens of thousands of people were killed. Pilgrims headed to the shrine from Baghdad and the south have come under attack by militants in recent months but the city itself has been largely spared the violence that has rocked other parts of Iraq. |
| Posted by:Steve White |