Bombs Kill 19 People in Northern Iraq, 5 in Baghdad
09 October 2007
Iraqi police say two suicide car bombs have exploded in a northern Iraqi town, killing at least 19 people and wounding about 30 others.
One of Tuesday's blasts in Baiji happened outside the home of a police chief, who survived the attack.
The other bomb exploded at the home of a Sunni tribal leader Thamir Attallah who was working with U.S. forces against al-Qaida. His condition is unclear. The Sunni tribal leader is part of a coalition of anti-al-Qaida sheikhs known as an "Awakening Council".
Baghdad also was hit by a series of bomb blasts today that killed at least five people. Elsewhere, gunmen killed a senior police official in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.
On Monday, a series of car and truck bombings killed at least 22 people across Iraq.
In the deadliest attack, a suicide truck bomb exploded outside a police station in the northern town of Samarra, killing 13 people.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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