Car Bomb Kills Seven in Northern Iraq
11 October 2007
Iraqi officials say a car bomb has killed at least seven people in the northern city of Kirkuk.
Authorities say 50 people were injured in the blast Thursday in a busy shopping district. The bomb expoded as a convoy passed carrying a local police chief, who was among the wounded.
Elsewhere in Iraq, U.S. military officials say two coalition soldiers were killed, and 40 people injured in a mortar attack Wednesday at Camp Victory, a major U.S. military base near the Baghdad airport. The military did not disclose the nationalities of those killed.
In other news, six main Sunni Islamic insurgent groups have announced the formation of a new council to fight U.S.-led forces.
A spokesman for the group, called the Political Council for Iraqi Resistance, made the announcement in a video that was aired Thursday on Al-Jazeera television.
The spokesman says the group includes the Islamic Army in Iraq, the Mujahedeen Army, Ansar al-Sunna-Religious Committee, and the Fateheen (conquerors') Army and two other groups. Al-Qaida in Iraq was not listed among its members.
Separately, the U.S. military says it has identified three al-Qaida in Iraq members killed in an air strike Wednesday. The military says the three were responsible for the killing of a Sunni Arab Imam. It says they were killed west of Baghdad along with 10 other terrorists.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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