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Suicide Truck in Kirkuk Iraq - Kills 70 at least 182 wounded.

by Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke | June 20, 2009 at 04:04 am

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According to breaking news on CNN earlier, a suicide truck in Kirkuk, Iraq has killed 26 and wounded at least 120. According to the LA Times this toll is now raised to 70 dead and 182 wounded. The attack happened near a mosque. Read more here This the bloodiest act that hit Iraq in two months. The article from google.com below is quite descriptive of the event.

Apparently the truck turned into a narrow street and then an eywitness heard a loud explosion. The incident ocurred near a mosque near Taza Kharmatu, a predominently Turkman Shiite town.

According to the eyewitness he heard a loud bang and his ceiling collapsed over his head. He didn't see a fire but saw a huge cloud in the sky.

KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) — Forty-six people were killed and 166 wounded on Saturday in a lunchtime suicide truck bombing near the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk, the bloodiest attack to hit Iraq in nearly two months.

The attack struck near a mosque in Taza Kharmatu, a predominantly Turkmen Shiite town south of Kirkuk, at around 1:00 pm (1000 GMT) and claimed women and children among its victims, officials said.

"I saw a truck passing through a very narrow road and, a few minutes later, I heard a huge explosion and the ceiling of my shop collapsed on my head," said Akbar Zain al-Abdin, 40, whose fertilizer and farm products store was almost completely destroyed.

"I didn't see a fire, but I saw a huge cloud of sand in the sky," he said.

"The victims were our relatives and our friends, their houses collapsed on them."

Kirkuk provincial deputy police chief Torhan Yusuf Abdel Rahman told AFP that 46 people were killed and 166 wounded in what he called a "suicide explosion."

Doctors at Kirkuk hospital's mortuary and casualty department confirmed the figures.