Deadly double bombing in Iraq
June 8, 2014
A car bomb and a suicide bombing on Sunday claimed the lives of at least 17 people at the offices of a Kurdish political party in the town of Jalula, 125 km (80 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Police officials said the attacks occurred in the morning at the office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the party of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. They said at least 50 people were also wounded in the attack.
The dead included a senior police officer and four of his bodyguards, police said.
Their was no immediate claim of responsibiity for the attacks. However, suicide bombings are a tactic mainly employed by Sunni Muslim militants in the country.
Iraq is experiencing a phase of bloody violence at levels not seen since a sectarian conflict in 2006-2007 pitting Iraq's Shiite majority against the Sunni Arab minority led to the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
On Sunday, a series of deadly bombings and clashes left at least 73 people dead.
According to figures compiled separately by the United Nations and the government, more than 900 people were killed last month, most of them civilians.
tj/pfd (AP, AFP)