Seven dead in renewed Iraq attacks

by Staff Writers

Kirkuk, Iraq (AFP) June 23, 2013


Three car bombs, including a suicide attack, a mortar round and a shooting killed at least seven people Sunday, most of them in northern Iraq where analysts fear tensions could trigger all-out conflict.
The deadliest attacks struck within territory which Iraqi Kurdistan wants to incorporate into its three-province autonomous region in spite of objections from Baghdad.
Diplomats cite the unresolved row as one of the biggest threats to the country's long-term stability.
In the town of Riyadh, just west of the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, three policemen were killed and 14 people were wounded when a suicide attacker set off a minibus rigged with explosives outside the police headquarters, police Brigadier General Sarhad Qader said.
Among the wounded in the morning attack were nine policemen, including local police chief Major Mundher Ahmed.



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