Suicide bomb blitz kills 45 [View All]

One day after Mr Maliki won a promise from tribal leaders to rein in Iraq's violent factions, bombers carried out deadly attacks across the country, with four targeting the northern Kurdish minority that left 15 people dead.

Two near simultaneous suicide car bomb attacks on Kurdish targets killed 10 and wounded 50 more in the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police Brigadier General Burhan Tayib sais in the city.

One attack hit a religious shrine owned by the family of Iraq's Kurdish President Jalal Talabani, the other the home of a Kurdish police chief, Colonel Ahmed Abdallah's, whose son was among the dead, Brig-Gen Tayib said.

Earlier, a third suicide car bomber had blown himself up near the PUK office in Kirkuk, killing one guard and wounding 16 party members, police said.

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