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DUBAI, May 24 (AFP) - 10h34 - An Al-Qaeda linked
group said it was behind a car bomb attack on a
convoy of a Kurdish official from the party of Iraqi
President Jalal Talabani that killed five other
people, according to a statement posted on its
website on Tuesday.
The Army of Ansar al-Sunna said its militants
detonated Monday a car bomb against the convoy of an
official from Talabani's Patriotic Union of
Kurdistan (PUK) in the northern region of Kirkuk.
The official, who was not named in the statement,
was "seriously wounded, and did not die," it said,
calling on "those helping the Crusaders and the
Jews... to repent."
Iraqi police said five people were killed and 19
others wounded when a driver in a pick-up truck blew
himself up outside the town hall in the northern
town of Tuz Khurmatu, 70 kilometres (45 miles) south
of Kirkuk on Monday.
The PUK said party official Mohammed Mahmud was
wounded and taken to hospital.
The Army of Ansar al-Sunna has claimed a string of
attacks in Iraq, including murders of foreign
hostages and Iraqis accused of "collaborating" with
US-led forces.
It has often released video footage of the killings
on Islamist websites.
AFP
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