IRAQ: At least three people are killed and 26 wounded in two separate car bomb attacks in the Iraqi northern district of Tuz Khurmato

Record ID: 353878

  • Title: IRAQ: At least three people are killed and 26 wounded in two separate car bomb attacks in the Iraqi northern district of Tuz Khurmato
  • Date: 23rd June 2013
  • Summary: TUZ KHURMATO, SALAHUDDIN PROVINCE, IRAQ (JUNE 23, 2013 ) (REUTERS) CROWD OF PEOPLE GATHERING AT AREA HIT BY TRUCK BOMB MECHANICAL DIGGER REMOVING RUBBLE OF DESTROYED HOUSES RUBBLE OF HOUSES PEOPLE WALKING AMIDST RUBBLE OF HOUSES MAN SITTING OUTSIDE HIS DEMOLISHED HOUSE CRATER CAUSED BY TRUCK BOMB VARIOUS OF DEMOLISHED HOUSES
  • Embargoed: 8th July 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime,Conflict
  • Reuters ID: LVA289UG17P0JWGPBSLYDY6WRB4X
  • Story Text: Two separate blasts in northern Iraq on Sunday (June 23) killed at least three people and wounded 26.
    The blasts occurred in Tuz Khurmato, some 170km (105 miles) north of the capital Baghdad; part of a territory contested by Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen, and is populated mainly by ethnic Turkmen.
    According to sources, a parked truck bomb exploded in a residential district of a mainly Shi'ite Turkmen, destroying a number of houses, followed a few minutes later by a car bomb blast just metres away from the district's police centre.
    Scattered attacks across the country on Saturday (June 22) killed at least 30 people, 12 of them in a Shi'ite mosque north of Baghdad where a suicide bomber blew himself up inside the mosque during evening prayer.
    Sectarian tensions in Iraq and the wider region have been inflamed by the civil war in Syria, where mainly Sunni Muslim rebels are fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, whose Alawite sect derives from Shi'ite Islam.
    Insurgents including al Qaeda's Iraqi affiliate have been regaining ground and recruits from the country's Sunni minority, which feels sidelined since the U.S.-led invasion toppled former dictator Saddam Hussein and empowered majority Shi'ites.
    More than 1,000 people were killed in Iraq in May alone, making it the deadliest month since the sectarian bloodletting of 2006-07.
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