Suicide Truck Bomb Kills 23 in Northern Iraq
By VOA News
10 September 2009
Iraqi police and hospital sources have told VOA that 23 people were killed and 29 wounded in a suicide truck bombing in a Kurdish village in northern Iraq.
The blast took place early Thursday in Wardak village near the city of Mosul. Police say a second suicide attack was thwarted, when Iraqi security forces opened fire on the bomber before he could trigger the explosives on his truck.
In a separate incident, police say four people were killed and 29 wounded in a bomb attack in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad.
On Wednesday, a car bomb exploded outside a house in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing eight people and flattening at least one building.
Police say it appeared the car was being rigged for a bomb attack and exploded prematurely in the yard of the house.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.
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