Wave of bombs kills 23 in Kirkuk
POSTED: 1316 GMT (2116 HKT), September 17, 2006
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Four car bomb attacks in less than three hours in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday left at least 23 people dead and 66 wounded, police told CNN.
The victims were police and civilians, officials said.
The first attack, carried out by a suicide car bomber, took place at 10 a.m. near the criminal investigation division of Kirkuk's police building, police said.
Ten minutes later, a suicide car bomber detonated outside a building housing an organization for children, and 20 minutes after that, a parked car bomb exploded outside a mosque, police said.
The fourth car bomb exploded at 12:30 p.m. on a street in the center of Kirkuk, which is 380 kilometers (235 miles) north of Baghdad.
Further south in Baquba, a roadside bomb struck an Iraqi police patrol around 12:30 p.m., killing two Iraqi police officers and wounding three others, police told CNN.
Baquba is about 50 kilometers north of Baghdad, where police found 24 unidentified bodies around the city in the past 24 hours. Most of the victims were shot in the head, with bound hands and showed signs of torture.
Last week, more than 150 bodies were found dumped across Baghdad in killings authorities believe resulted from Sunni-Shiite sectarian hostilities.
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