Bombs Targeting Kurdish Political Offices in Iraq Kill 30
Two bombs targeting Kurdish political party offices in northern Iraq have killed at least 30 people.
Security officials say a car bomb blew up in Tuz Khormato at a checkpoint near the offices of President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party.
A short time later a truck packed with explosives was detonated beside a wall.
The attack was the second in as many days against PUK offices. On Sunday, a double bombing killed at least 18 people outside a PUK site in Diyala province.
An al-Qaida splinter group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility for Sunday's attack.
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