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Death toll rises to 14 in Arbil suicide bomb blast (1st Lead)

May 9, 2007, 11:03 GMT

Baghdad - At least 14 people have been reported killed and over 78 others injured, some seriously, in a suicide bomb attack Wednesday in Arbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, according to a statement by the Kurdish regional government. Independent news agency Voices of Iraq earlier said a truck bomb was detonated in between the offices of the Interior Ministry and a building housing Kurdish security services. Witnesses said the blast left a three-metre-deep crater in the street, the news agency reported. Arbil is the seat of the Kurdistan regional government. The Kurdish autonomous region, where security is controlled by militias loyal to the Kurdish party, is seen as relatively stable. Thousands of Iraqis fleeing unrest in other areas have sought refuge there in the four years since the ouster of Saddam Hussein. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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Death toll rises to 14 in Arbil suicide bomb blast (1st Lead)

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