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BAGHDAD, Iraq (UPI) -- A Kurdish security chief
and two bodyguards were killed in a car bomb in
northern Iraq in the latest violence sweeping the
country, police said Tuesday.
Anwar Haji Othman, the director general of internal
security in the region of Shahrazouz in Iraq`s
Kurdistan, was killed when a suicide bomber hit his
convoy on the main road between the cities of
Halbaja and Suleimaniya.
Two of his bodyguards were also killed in the blast,
which occurred late Monday night.
Police in the Kurdish enclave also said that they
seized a booby-trapped car whose driver planned to
detonate it in Irbil, the capital of the province.
There was no immediate information about the party
behind the crime and no group claimed
responsibility.
At least 13 Kurdish policemen were killed and more
than 100 wounded Monday in a suicide attack that
targeted a training center in Irbil.
UPI
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