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Twin bombings kill 30 in Northern Iraq

2014-06-09 232 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br /> <br />At least 30 people were killed in a double bombing targeting the offices of a Kurdish political party in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmato on Monday (June 9), local officials and medical workers said.<br /> <br />Security sources said a car bomb blew up at a checkpoint near the local headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party, before a truck packed with explosives was detonated beside a wall.<br /> <br />The attack is the latest in a show of strength by militants who have been regaining ground in Iraq and on Sunday killed 18 people in twin blasts targeting PUK offices in the town of Jalawla.<br /> <br />The Sunni militant Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) said it was behind that attack and also claimed responsibility for the bombing on Monday, crediting a suicide bomber whose name indicates he was Egyptian.<br /> <br />A further 185 people were wounded in the blasts, the force of which destroyed many buildings in the area. Sources said

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