More suicide blasts in Iraq
Several people were killed in Iraq yesterday in a series of suicide bomb blasts.
Outside the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Kirkuk, at least five people were murdered in a suicide car bomb attack.
The Kirkuk attack was the third assault within 24 hours.
Elsewhere, an explosion at a school in the Shi’ite city of Kerbala killed at least two children.
And two Iraqis were killed in a car bomb attack outside the home of the leader of one of the largest Sunni Muslim tribes in Iraq, Sheik Amer Ali Suleiman, in Ramadi, 60 miles west of Baghdad.
Sheik Amer Ali Suleiman is a member of the city council and has reportedly been aiding coalition forces.
An attack also took place in Baghdad when two gunmen opened fire before dawn outside the Embassy of Jordan, killing an Iraqi security guard.
