DHAKA: Back-to-back car bomb attacks have killed seven people belonging to an ethnic minority in northern Iraq, reported foxnews.

Police officials said the explosion on Friday morning took place in Tahrawa, a village, near the city of Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, inhabited by families from the Shabak ethnic group. 

Police say about 37 people were wounded in the attack.

Hospital officials confirmed the toll from the attack. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release details to journalists.

According to the United Nations, 8,868 people were killed in Iraq in 2013 -- the country's highest death toll since the peak of sectarian bloodletting in 2007.

BDST: 1739 HRS, JUN 05, 2014