4 Killed in Suicide Blast in Northern Iraq

World | December 24, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00

A suicide bombing killed four people, including the bomber, in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Arbil, as the US military hit back at insurgents in the capital with an early morning offensive. Another 15 people were wounded when the bomber detonated a pick-up truck packed with explosives outside interior ministry offices in Arbil around 11:50 am local time, the ministry said Wednesday. The other dead comprised two policeman and a civilian. Ministry employees were among the wounded. The force of the blast blew out windows in buildings surrounding the ministry's offices in the northern city which is controlled by a Kurdish former rebel faction, the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

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