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Car bomb targets Kurdish party in Makhmour city
kills 50 people and wounded 115 in Kurdistan region
13.5.2007
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Islamic terrorists car bomb targets Kurdistan
May 13, 2007
Makhmour, Kurdistan region (Iraq), eKurd.net,
May 13 ,-- A suicide car bomb targeted the headquarters of
the KDP party in Makhmour city in Kurdistan region
(northern Iraq) on Sunday, killed at least 30 people
and wounded 115 others
including
the city's mayor, Abdul Rahman Delaf, who also is a
prominent Kurdish writer, and the director of the
KDP office,
Ziryan
Othman the health minister of the Kurdish regional
government
said.
Reuters reported that the death toll from a suicide
truck bombing in Kurdistan on Sunday rose to 50
A group of people hurriedly pulled what appeared to
be a dead body out of a demolished car.
Police said the bomber hit a compound housing
Makhmur's local administration and the offices of
two Kurdish political parties.
"We were holding a meeting in my office when there
was an explosion outside, which smashed the
windows," said Abdel Rahman Bilaf, the mayor of
Makhmur
"A man in an army officer's uniform driving a
Chevrolet four-by-four pulled up and said he was
expected at a meeting," said wounded policeman Ziad
Ibrahim. |
Flash Video - Zagros TV, May 13 |
"We let him in and he drove straight to the party
offices and the car exploded," he explained, also
speaking from his hospital bed.
Outside the hospital in Erbil, security guards
closed the hospital to visitors and read a list
containing the names of the wounded who had been
admitted.
Hearing the names of his son and daughter, Qassim
Amin, 61, a Kurd, thanked God that they had not been
killed. Both are employees at the KDP party office,
he said.
"Makhmur is an open, peaceful area, and al-Qaida is
trying to destabilize it by causing fighting between
Arabs and Kurds," Amin said.
It was the second suicide attack in Kurdistan region
in four days.
The blast took place near the local office of the
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Makhmour, a town
near the Kurdish city of Erbil, the capital of the
autonomous region of Kurdistan.
On Thursday, a car bomb
outside the interior ministry of the Kurdish
regional government in Erbil in Kurdistan killed 15
and wounded more than 100.
The al Qaeda militant
group claimed responsibility for the rare attack in
the relatively peaceful Kurdistan.
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