Bombers kill 37
2005-10-11 13:34
Mosul - At least 37 people were killed and 49 wounded on Tuesday in two suicide car bomb attacks near the northern city of Mosul and in Baghdad, security sources said.
"Thirty people were killed and 45 others wounded," when a suicide car bomb ripped through a crowded market in the restive northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, police chief General Najrm Abdallah said.
The blast came just four days before Iraqis are due to vote on Saturday on a new constitution which aims to turn another page in the country's political transition post-Saddam Hussein.
In another attack in the capital, five soldiers and two civilians were killed and four others wounded when a suicide car bomber smashed into an army checkpoint in the western neighbourhood of Al-Amariyah, a defence ministry source said.
The Tal Afar bombing comes almost a month after United States and Iraqi forces wrapped up an operation aimed at clearing the town of insurgents ahead of Saturday's referendum which Sunni-led rebels have vowed to disrupt.
On September 28, five people were killed when a woman suicide bomber blew herself up at a police recruitment centre at Tal Afar, which lies between the main northern city of Mosul and the Syrian border.
- AFP