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IRAQ: Police say car bomb kills 30 in North

A car bomb near the office of a leading Kurdish party in northern Iraq killed 30 people and wounded 50 others on Sunday (May 13, 2007ice said. The blast took place near the local office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in Makhmour, a town near the Kurdish city of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan. Colonel Abdul Qadir al Harky, the head of police in Makhmour, said there were many bodies under the rubble and he expected the death toll to rise. Other security sources said that the KDP were having a local meeting at the time of the attack. At least 15 people were killed and 100 wounded when a truck bomb exploded near the Kurdish interior ministry in Arbil last week. The attack last week, which was claimed by al Qaeda, raised fears among ethnic Kurds that their relatively peaceful region would become a target of more violence to come.

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