Bomb kills pensioners
14/06/2005 09:56  - (SA)  

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Kirkuk - A bomb exploded outside a bank in this northern city and killed 18 people waiting on Tuesday including pensioners and child street vendors selling groceries, police said.

Captain Salam Zangana, an official at a hospital where the victims were being brought, said another 53 people were wounded.

The bomb was planted near a queue of people waiting outside the Rafidiyan Bank in downtown Kirkuk, 290km north of Baghdad, police Colonel Shiraz Mohammed said.

The 09:00 blast was caused by a roadside bomb planted outside the bank and two cars parked nearby were set on flames, Mohammed said.

- AP

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