Iraq attacks kill at least 17

December 17, 2012 08:33

AFP: Attacks in Iraq, including a string of bombings against Shiite places of worship and a car bomb at a Kurdish political office, killed at least 17 people and wounded at least 77, officials said.

Two car bombs and seven roadside bombs exploded near two Shiite places of worship, known as husseiniyahs, in the northern city of Kirkuk, while a magnetic "sticky bomb" targeted a policeman near the city yesterday, police said. Sadiq Omar Rasul, the head of the Kirkuk health directorate, put the toll from the various attacks at 13 killed and 57 wounded.

Oil-rich and ethnically mixed Kirkuk is part of a swathe of territory in northern Iraq that the autonomous Kurdistan region wants to incorporate, over the strong objections of Baghdad.

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