Militants take hostages after seizing Iraq city council HQ

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Militants take hostages after seizing Iraq city council HQ
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 11:44 EST

Militants seized the city council headquarters in the Iraqi city of Samarra and took employees hostage on Tuesday, officials said, the second such attack in recent months.

The attack illustrates the impunity with which militants in Iraq can strike even targets that should be highly secure.

Two militants, possibly wearing explosives-rigged vests or belts, seized the Samarra city council building on Tuesday morning with an unknown number of employees inside, security officials said.

Clashes broke out between the militants and security forces, and a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near police and anti-Al-Qaeda militia forces when they arrived at the scene.


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