IRAQ: At least 25 die in Iraq truck bomb blast

Record ID: 356384

  • Title: IRAQ: At least 25 die in Iraq truck bomb blast
  • Date: 21st June 2009
  • Summary: KIRKUK, IRAQ (JUNE 20, 2009) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL): PEOPLE AND SECURITY FORCES AT BLAST SCENE POLICEMAN CARRYING RIFLE / POLICE PICK UP TRUCK ARRIVING BLAST SCENE PEOPLE AND POLICEMEN AT BLAST SCENE MORE OF PEOPLE AT BLAST SCENE RUBBLE OF HOUSE LEVELLED TO GROUND AT BLAST SCENE /PEOPLE AT BLAST SCENE PEOPLE INSPECTING DEMOLISHED HOUSES AT BLAST SCENE VARIOUS OF PEOPL
  • Embargoed: 6th July 2009 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA5ZLEN4J330UL5K4TYGFUC20BP
  • Story Text: At least 25 people have died and 150 have been wounded in a deadly truck bomb blast near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police say.
    A suicide truck bomber killed at least 25 people near a Shi'ite Muslim mosque close to Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Saturday (June 20), police said.
    About 150 people were also wounded by the explosion, which a police source said had flattened some 25 homes in the area. Women and children were among the dead.
    There was chaos at Kirkuk's main Azadi Hospital, where ambulance sirens wailed as workers rushed civilians, including several children, into the wards.
    Outside, security officials brandished assault rifles to stop traffic as pick-up trucks raced through the gates carrying more victims of the blast at the al-Rasul Mosque.
    Violence has dropped sharply across Iraq in the past year. But insurgents including Sunni Islamist al Qaeda still launch deadly attacks on U.S. forces, Iraqi police and civilians in a bid to trigger renewed sectarian bloodshed and undermine Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led government.
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