الأحد، 24 فبراير 2013

#Iraq governor hurt in suicide car blast

BAQUBA, Iraq – The governor of Iraq’s restive Diyala province was wounded in a suicide car bombing Saturday, while a provincial elections candidate was killed in another attack, police and a doctors said.

The suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at Governor Omar Al-Humairi’s house in Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, wounding him, killing two of his guards and injuring six more, a police lieutenant colonel and a doctor said.

Humairi, a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party, became governor of Diyala, a province that suffers frequent attacks by militants, in September.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Also Saturday, Sheikh Hassan Hadi Al-Janabi, a provincial elections candidate in Babil province, was killed south of Baghdad by a magnetic "sticky bomb" along with two of his relatives, a police captain and a doctor said.

While violence in Iraq has decreased significantly since its peak in 2006 and 2007, attacks remain common. – AFP

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