Iraqi bombing claims 40
2006-03-27 14:24
Baghdad - At least 40 people were killed and 20 others wounded on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the midst of candidates waiting at an army recruitment centre in northwest Iraq, an interior ministry official said.
"Forty people have died and 20 were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the midst of candidates waiting at a recruitment centre for Iraq defence forces," the official said.
He said the explosion occurred at the Iraq army centre called Tamarat, located near the town of Tal Afar, which is close to the restive city of Mosul.
Earlier an official with the Nineveh governorate of which Mosul is the capital had also confirmed that the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.
The latest attack is one of the bloodiest in the last four months after the November suicide bombing on a police recruitment centre in Ramadi which left 70 dead.
- AFP