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| New Iraq carnage leaves 15 dead | |
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| A series of car bomb attacks in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk has killed at least eight people and injured dozens of others, police say. | |
| Three attacks appeared to target police while the fourth bomb went off near a teacher training college, they said. | Three attacks appeared to target police while the fourth bomb went off near a teacher training college, they said. |
| Earlier in Baghdad, two bombs hit the convoy of a senior interior ministry official, killing seven people. | |
| The attacks are the latest in a surge of violence of all types in Iraq during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. | The attacks are the latest in a surge of violence of all types in Iraq during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. |
| Kirkuk - an ethnically mixed city 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad - was the scene of a major security operation by Iraqi and US forces last weekend. | |
| Police said Sunday's bombs went off at five-minute intervals, and that two of them were suicide attacks. | |
| Sources told the BBC the city's chief of emergency police and chief of city police were injured and some of their guards killed in two of the bombings. | |
| In a third incident, a roadside bomb targeted a police patrol. | |
| The fourth device went off near a college, but Reuters news agency said police thought the target was a nearby Iraqi security headquarters. | |
| Correspondents say there is confusion over the casualty figures, with some reports saying 11 people died. | |
| In Baghdad, Sunday's bombing killed five passers-by and two security men. | |
| The interior ministry's head of finance, Hala Shakr Salim, survived the attack as her motorcade drove through the eastern district of Mustansiriya. |