8 killed in suicide bombing in Iraq
Wed Mar 14, 6:08 AM ET
A suicide bomber struck a market in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at
least eight people and wounding 25, police said.
The explosion occurred just before noon as the market was crowded with
shoppers in Tuz Khormato, 130 miles north of Baghdad.
Northern Iraq has seen a recent rise in violence that many blame on
insurgents fleeing a security crackdown in the capital. The city, which is
mixed but consists mainly of Turkomen, is 88 miles south of oil-rich Kirkuk.
In western Baghdad, a suicide car bomber slammed into an Iraqi army
checkpoint in the Sunni neighborhood of Yarmouk, killing two civilians and
wounding four others, police said.