KIRKUK: Militants attacked local government and police buildings in northern Iraq with suicide bombings and mortar fire yesterday, sparking clashes that killed 14 people, among 33 deaths nationwide.
The assault came in Hawijah. One suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near a police station, while a second blew up another near a local administrative building. Militants then hit both buildings and a local council office with mortar fire, and gunmen clashed with the army.
Seven civilians, three soldiers and four militants were killed and 22 people wounded, army Staff Major General Mohammed Khalaf Al Dulaimi said.
Troops were combing the area for another nine assailants who were believed to have escaped, Dulaimi added.
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