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Suicide attack kills 16 in Iraq

The gunmen were wearing suicide vests when they attacked a power plant in Iraq

By AFP

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Published: Fri 21 Oct 2016, 3:58 PM

Last updated: Sun 23 Oct 2016, 9:32 AM

Kirkuk: Gunmen wearing suicide vests attacked government targets in the Kurdish-controlled city of Kirkuk and killed 16 at an Iranian-run construction site further north on Friday as troops advanced on the Daesh bastion Mosul.
Daesh claimed responsibility.
"The forces of IS attacked the city of Kirkuk from all directions," the Daesh-linked Amaq news agency said, using another name for the group.
In one attack, three bombers infiltrated a power plant being built by an Iranian company near Dibis, a town about 40 km northwest of Kirkuk, the mayor said.
"Three suicide bombers attacked the power plant at around 6.00 am, killing 12 Iraqi administrators and engineers and four Iranian technicians," Dibis mayor Abdullah Nureddin al-Salehi told AFP.


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