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| Truck bomb kills 30 in north Iraq | Truck bomb kills 30 in north Iraq |
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| At least 30 people have been killed and another 50 wounded by a suicide truck bombing in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur, Iraqi police say. | |
| The bomb exploded near government buildings and the local office of a leading Kurdish party, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). | |
| The local police chief said many bodies were buried under rubble and that he expected the death toll to rise. | The local police chief said many bodies were buried under rubble and that he expected the death toll to rise. |
| Last week, 14 people were killed by a truck bomb in the nearby city of Irbil. | Last week, 14 people were killed by a truck bomb in the nearby city of Irbil. |
| The near-daily bombings and instability that have gripped much of Iraq remain rare in the country's north. | |
| However, political tensions are rising over the drafting of a bill that will redistribute oil wealth among the country's Kurdish, Sunni and Shia population. | |
| Most of Iraq's oil is concentrated around the Kurdish north and Shia south. | |
| Police were not sure what was the target of Sunday's bombing, but among the dead was a senior police officer. | |
| The town's mayor, prominent Kurdish writer Abd al-Rahman Delaf, was also wounded by the blast. | |
| The KDP, which was holding a meeting in its office when the bomb exploded, is led by the president of the Kurdish autonomous region, Massoud Barzani. |