Car bombs kill 12 in northern Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three car bombs in northern Iraq targeting police and a local tribal leader killed 12 people on Wednesday, police and local officials said.
A suicide car bomber killed five people and wounded nine in an attack targeting Sheikh Kanan al-Juhaimur, a tribal leader near the town of Sinjar in northwest Iraq.
Sinjar mayor Dakheel Hassu said the bomber blew his car up in a reception area where Juhaimur regularly hosted guests outside his house in the village of Um el-Zaidan.
Police said Juhaimur was wounded in the attack but Hassu said he had no details on the tribal leader’s fate.
Police said two separate car bomb attacks killed seven people and wounded five in the town of Shirqat, about 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad.
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