Twin blasts kill at least 3 in northern Iraq
Reuters
2013-06-23
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Twin explosions in northern Iraq have killed at least three people and wounded 26.
The blasts leveled parts of a residential district in Tuz Khurmato, about 170km north of Baghdad.
The city is part of a territory home to a sometimes volatile ethnic mix of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen.
Sources say a truck bomb exploded in a Shi'ite Turkmen neighbourbood followed minutes later by a car bomb.
The blasts - which happened Sunday - were part of a bloody weekend in Iraq.
Scattered attacks on Saturday left 30 dead across the country and were part of a recent wave of sectarian violence inflamed by the civil war in Syria.
In May, more than 1,000 Iraqis were killed, the deadliest month in six years.
The blasts leveled parts of a residential district in Tuz Khurmato, about 170km north of Baghdad.
The city is part of a territory home to a sometimes volatile ethnic mix of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen.
Sources say a truck bomb exploded in a Shi'ite Turkmen neighbourbood followed minutes later by a car bomb.
The blasts - which happened Sunday - were part of a bloody weekend in Iraq.
Scattered attacks on Saturday left 30 dead across the country and were part of a recent wave of sectarian violence inflamed by the civil war in Syria.
In May, more than 1,000 Iraqis were killed, the deadliest month in six years.
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