Iraq suicide bomber kills three, wounds 100

KIRKUK: A suicide bomber blew up a car in northern Iraq on Monday, killing two policemen and a woman, and wounding 100 other people, many of them schoolchildren, officials said.

The bomber struck at a police station in the town of Dibis, northwest of the ethnically divided oil city of Kirkuk, district official Abdullah al-Salehi told AFP.




Many of the wounded were pupils at an adjacent Kurdish girls' secondary school, Salehi added. The blast hit at around 10:00 am (0700 GMT) when children were in class, a police officer said.

Dibis is part of a swathe of territory that the Kurds want to join to their autonmomous region in northern Iraq, over the objections of Arab and Turkmen residents, and the central government in Baghdad.

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