KIRKUK: At least five people were killed and 36 others were wounded in a suicide attack in northern Iraq on Monday, security officials said.
A suicide attacker drove his explosives-laden car into a police station in the town of Dibis, northwest of the ethnically mixed oil city of Kirkuk, killing five people and wounding 36, said a provincial police officer.
According to the deputy police chief in the northern city of Kirkuk, Maj. Gen. Torhan Abdul-Rahman Youssef, the dead in Monday’s attack in the town of Dibis included two policemen and three civilians. The town is located near Kirkuk, which is 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad.
Many of the wounded were pupils at an adjacent Kurdish girls’ secondary school, Youssef said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but suicide bombings are a hallmark of al-Qaida’s Iraq branch. Violence has ebbed across Iraq since the peak of the fighting in the last decade, but deadly bombings and shootings still occur almost daily.
DND
