Triple suicide bombing in Iraq kills 26 Kurds

A triple suicide bombing killed 26 Kurdish security forces northeast of Baghdad on Sunday and a roadside bomb killed the police chief of the western Anbar province, dealing major blows to Iraqi security forces struggling to combat the ISIL extremist group. The triple bomb attack took place in Qara Tappah, in the ethnically and communally mixed Diyala province, according to an official from the Kurdish Asayish security forces. He said the first bomber detonated an explosives vest at the gateway to a security compound that also houses the office of a main Kurdish political party. Minutes later, two suicide bombers drove cars filled with explosives into the compound, causing heavy damage. At least 60 people were wounded in the attack.

They targeted three different locations in close proximity to each other – two of them were used as bases by Kurdish security forces, a third by the PUK political party. The Kurds are at war and definitely this is a major blow.

Al Jazeera reporter Zeina Khodr

In a separate incident, two improvised explosive devices detonated at a local market in the Dur al-Dhubat district in southern Baquba, killing six civilians and wounding 10, a police source said. In the village of al-Bu Risha, 15 km west of the city of Ramadi, Anbar police commander General Ahmad Sadak al-Dulaymi was killed when suspected IS fighters targeted his convoy with two improvised explosive devices on Sunday, a security source said. The attacks in Anbar followed a bloody day in the capital Baghdad, where a series of car bomb attacks killed at least 45 people in Shiite-majority areas. Nobody claimed responsibility for the recent attacks, yet officials in the Shiite-led government and Shiite neighborhoods are frequently targeted by Sunni insurgents.

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