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Suicide bomb kills 55 in northern Iraq

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Source: CCTV.com | 12-12-2008 13:33

Special Report:   Iraq in Transition

A suicide bomber struck the Abdullah Restaurant north of the contested oil city of Kirkuk in Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 55 and wounding 120 others.

A woman cries beside her son who was wounded in a bomb attack, in a hospital in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad December 11, 2008. [Agencies]
A woman cries beside her son who was wounded in a bomb
attack, in a hospital in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) 
north of Baghdad December 11, 2008. [Agencies]

Kurdish officials were meeting with Arab tribal leaders at the venue to discuss long-standing ethnic tensions. It was the deadliest attack in Iraq for nearly six months.

 

Editor:Zhang Pengfei