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Shways
was not with them at the time, but the authorities
say one of his guards died in the blast.
The bomber targeted the 'Baghdad' restaurant in the
heart of the town at around 9am local time,
destroying the building. Around 37 people are
reported to have been injured, including six of
Shways' guards. According to one report, he was
travelling by air, while his guards travelled by
road. Tuz Khurmatu is along the main road between
Baghdad and Kirkuk.
Rowsch Shways, a prominent Kurd, is one of Iraq's
three deputy prime ministers. The other two, Ahmad
Chalabi and Abed Mutlak al-Jibouri, are Shiite and
Sunni. Before the new government was finally
assembled, Shways was vice-president in the interim
government formed in June 2004. He was also
president of Iraq's Kurdish parliament, based in
Irbil and is a senior member of the Kurdistan
Democratic Party.
Iraq suffered two other suicide attacks on Thursday
morning. In the town of Baquba, just to the north of
Baghdad, an insurgent blew up his car in the middle
of a group of local government vehicles, killing
five people. Police say one of the dead was the
deputy head of the town council, Hussein Alwan al-Tamimi.
In the other attack, a suicide bomber blew up his
car in the northern city of Kirkuk outside the
state-run North Oil Company, which manages pipelines
and refineries in the north of Iraq. Police say one
person died and 12 were injured in the blast.
More than 700 Iraqis and 78 US soldiers died in May
- the deadliest month since January, when insurgents
increased their attacks in the run-up to the
country's elections on January 30.
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