IS attack kills four in Kurdish-held Iraq town

November 04, 2015 02:44

Militants from the Islamic State jihadist group killed four people and wounded 15 today in a relatively rare attack behind Kurdish lines in northern Iraq, officials said.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives near the entrance to a police building in the town of Dibis in Kirkuk province, and a second attacker was killed by security forces, police officers said.

Two more militants entered the police building and the local government headquarters, but were also subsequently killed, an officer and a local official said.

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