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Suicide bomber kills 7 in Iraqi Kurdish city
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-05-04 15:16
A suicide bomber blew himself up at the office of a Kurdish party in the
northern Iraqi city of Arbil on Wednesday, killing at least seven people,
Kurdish security guards and witnesses said.
One security official estimated the death toll could be as high as 70 but
that could not be immediately confirmed.
Witnesses and police said the blast targeted a local office of the Kurdistan
Democratic Party, one of two main parties in a Kurdish coalition that came
second during the Jan. 30 polls.
The attack in the Kurdish city will step up pressure on the new Iraqi
government, which was sworn in on Tuesday but is incomplete with five permanent
ministers and two deputy prime ministers yet to be named.
Iraq's new leaders are trying to ease sectarian tensions which have deepened
since the elections turned Shi'ites and Kurds into the most powerful groups and
sidelined Sunnis, who were dominant under Saddam Hussein.
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