DHAKA: A suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into the playground of a primary school in northern Iraq and blew himself up, killing 14 students and their headmaster on Sunday.

Iraq police and medical sources said, reports Today’s Zaman.

The attack followed a suicide bombing minutes earlier on a police station in the same town, Tel Afar, about 70 km northwest of Mosul city, where Sunni Islamist and other insurgents have a foothold.

There were no casualties in the police station attack.   

‘We were exposed to two big explosions today in which dozens were killed or injured. The first was a truck bomb targeting a police station and the second was detonated inside the primary school,’ the mayor of Tel Afar, Abdul Al Abbas, told media.

BDST: 1658 HRS, OCT 06, 2013
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