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Iraqi Kurdish party PUK office bombed in
Mosul
15.8.2006
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MOSUL, Iraq, -- A suicide bomber detonated a
truck rigged with explosives outside the offices of
a top Kurdish political party on Tuesday in the
northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing nine people
and wounding 36, police said.
Five Kurdish peshmerga militiamen were among the
dead, police said. The blast outside the office of
the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, led by Iraqi
President Jalal Talabani, also wounded 24
militiamen. The rest of the victims were civilians.
Moheeddin Mazuri, PUK's public relations and media
official, told reporters four Peshmerga troops were
killed and five civilians including three children.
He added that the wounded, who were rushed to
hospitals in Erbil, included 24 Peshmergas and 12
civilians.
The bomb blast set 18 cars afire and damaged nearby
buildings. |
PUK office at Mosul city
Photo: Reuters |
Mosul, a religiously divided city 390 km (240 miles)
north of Baghdad, has suffered from considerable
sectarian bloodshed since the 2003 invasion of Iraq
and it witnessed heavy clashes between militants and
U.S. and Iraqi forces on August 4.
Police Colonel Kareem Khalaf said the bomber
detonated a dump truck at 10:45 a.m. (0645 GMT) in
an eastern section of the city.
Another police source said the truck may have been
mistaken for a construction vehicle connected with
work being done on the building.
The attack follows violence against the PUK last
week, when its offices in southern Iraq were
ransacked by followers of a Basra-based Shi'ite
cleric.
They were angered by an article in the Kurdish
party's official newspaper claiming the cleric,
Sheikh al-Yaqoubi, was fanning sectarian tension in
Kirkuk, a religiously mixed city claimed both by
Arabs and Kurds.
Talabani subsequently issued a statement saying he
regretted any hurt caused by the report and had had
no prior knowledge of its publication.
Reuters + Agencies
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