Coffee Shop Bomb Kills 19 in Iraq

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/13/world/middleeast/coffee-shop-bomb-kills-19-in-iraq.html

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A bomb went off in a crowded coffee shop late Friday in the ethnically disputed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing at least 19 and wounding more than two dozen in the latest in a string of bloody attacks since the start of the holy month of Ramadan this week. The blast exploded in the Classico Cafe in southern Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, as patrons were enjoying tea and water pipes hours after the sunset meal that breaks the daylong Ramadan fast, the police said. [Other news accounts of the blast reported a higher death toll.] In addition to those killed, the attack wounded 26, a police officer and a hospital official said.