27 killed in Iraq suicide bomb blast
At least 27 people were killed and 59 wounded in three suicide bomb attacks in Iraq today.
One of the attacks occurred near the northern city of Mosul at 10.10am local time when a suicide attacker detonated his car in front of an office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Massoud Barzani, leader of the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq.
At least 10 people were killed and 20 wounded in the attack in Tal Uskuf, nine miles north of Mosul, said Abdul-Ghani Ali, a KDP official.
A suicide car bomber also struck a police station in Baqouba, 35 miles north-east of Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding 23, police said.
In central Baghdad, a bomber wearing an explosives belt blew himself up in an Iraqi restaurant in the neighbourhood of Karradah Mariam, killing at least seven people and wounding 16, police said.
The attack occurred less than 100 yards outside the heavily-fortified Green Zone, home to the US and British embassies and the Iraqi government’s headquarters.
At the time, Ryan Crocker, who became the new US ambassador in Iraq about a month ago, was giving a news conference in the Green Zone.
