Triple suicide attack kills 175 in Iraq town
TIMES ONLINE
At least 175 people were killed today in a triple fuel tanker suicide attack on a town in northern Iraq.
In one of the worst single atrocities in the four-year-old war at least another 200 people were wounded in the bombings in separate areas of the town of Kahtaniya, west of Mosul, Iraqi army Captain Mohammad al-Jaad said.
The attacks on the Yazidi community occurred about 8pm local time leaving whole apartment buildings destroyed and several shops nearby ablaze.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks but they bore the hallmark of al-Qaeda, which has been regrouping in the north of the country after being driven from safe havens in Anbar and Diyala provinces.
The attack was the deadliest in Iraq since 215 people were killed in November when mortar rounds and five car bombs killed 215 people in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City.
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