Baghdad: At least 12 people have been killed and several others injured in separate incidents of suicide bombing and targeted killing in the Iraqi city of Mosul, here on Monday, raising the sectarian and ethnic tensions in the region.
According to media reports, the suicide bomber attacked a military check-post in Mosul, North of Baghdad, with an explosive laden car, killing eight people and wounding 18 including soldiers.
“The blast destroyed everything. It looks like there was nothing here before the explosion,” said a policeman at the scene who declined to be identified because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
In a separate incident in Mosul, gunmen using silenced weapons killed the bodyguard of a Kurdish member of the city’s provincial council and three others, police said.
A surge in violence since the withdrawal of US troops in late 2011 is stoking fears of a return to the sectarian strife that killed tens of thousands of Iraqis in 2006 and 2007.
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