Five killed in Iraq suicide bombing
December 21st, 2009 - 7:43 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )Mosul, Dec 21 (DPA) Five people were killed and seven injured in a suicide bombing in a northern Iraqi town Monday, police said.
The head of the municipal council in the town of Tel Afar, Hussein Mohammed Al al-Kris, was among the dead. The suicide bomber, who had the explosives strapped to his body, was also killed, according to police
Tel Afar, which lies roughly 60 km northwest of the city of Mosul, was the site of intense fighting after the 2003 US-led invasion.
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