Casualties in suicide bombing on Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’s headquarters in central Tuz
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(IraqiNews.com) Salahuddin – Tuz Khurmatu District Council announced on Saturday, that a number of people had been either killed or wounded in a suicide bombing by a booby-trapped vehicle that targeted the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the center of the district east of Tikrit.
The Mayor of Tuz Kharmatu Disrict Shalal Abdul said in a statement followed by IraqiNews.com, “A booby-trapped vehicle driven by a suicide bomber exploded, before noon today, near the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the general hospital street in the center of the district, killing and wounding a number of people.”
Abdul added, “A security force transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital to receive medical treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department.”