Iraq Police HQ attack kills 30
IRAQ: A car bomb detonated by a suicide attacker followed by
gunmen storming a police headquarters in the north Iraqi city of Kirkuk
killed 30 people and wounded 70 others on Sunday, a police general said.
Militants had apparently sought to take control of the compound, but
were unsuccessful, Brigadier General Natah Mohammed Sabr, the head of
the city's emergency services department, told AFP.
The deadly attack shattered a relative calm in recent days in Iraq,
which has been grappling with a political crisis that has pitted Prime
Minister Nuri al-Maliki against his erstwhile government partners amid
weeks of protests calling for him to resign. No group immediately
claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack, but Sunni militants
including al-Qaeda's front group in Iraq frequently target security
forces and government targets in a bid to destabilise the country and
push it back towards the sectarian bloodshed that blighted it from 2005
to 2008.
AFP
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