Suicide Bombings Kill 21, Wound Dozens in Iraq

Suicide bombers driving ambulances packed with explosives detonated their vehicles at a checkpoint and a car park for Shi’ite pilgrims in two Iraqi cities Sunday, killing at least 21 people and wounding dozens, officials said. The twin attacks took place in Tikrit and Samarra. They appeared to be part of a series of diversionary attacks by the hard-line Sunni Islamists, who have struck the Kurdish-controlled city of Kirkuk, the capital Baghdad and a western desert town during the...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - dimanche 6 novembre 2016