Suicide bomber attacks primary school in Iraq, kills 15

[oberliner]

Source: Reuters

A suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into the playground of a primary school in northern Iraq and blew himself up, killing 14 students and their headmaster on Sunday, police and medical sources said.

The attack followed a suicide bombing minutes earlier on a police station in the same town, Tel Afar, about 70 km (45 miles) northwest of Mosul city, where Sunni Islamist and other insurgents have a foothold. There were no casualties in the police station attack.

"We were exposed to two big explosions today in which dozens were killed or injured. The first was a truck bomb targeting a police station and the second was detonated inside the primary school," the mayor of Tel Afar, Abdul Al Abbas, told Reuters.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/06/us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE99504N20131006

[Victor_c3]

1. At least Iraq is a free country now!

Thank you george w. bush!

[heaven05]

6. exactly

my first thought on reading this. Children for some ideological or religious reason had to die? geez Yeah, thanks, shrub, jr.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Wow - purposely attacking a school is pretty low even for those guys (nt)

[oberliner]

4. Really sickening

To deliberately target primary school children on a playground.

[Pterodactyl]

8. They do it all the time: schools, places of worship, bus stops, restaurants.

[madrchsod]

3. old man bush and his crew knew this would happen

millions are paying the price because georgie had to prove to his dad that he was a man

[Sunlei]

5. I hate religions that are violent like this. religion should NEVER be a part of any government

[grahamhgreen]

9. You mean the Christian crusaders who attacked Iraq?

[Sunlei]

10. no the stupid 'religious passion' that car bombs kids or flies planes into skyscrapers!

didn't you read the article on this post?

[WinkyDink]

7. "Democracy, we know, is messy...."

~~~Donald "Tamiflu" Rumsfeld.

[Eugene]

11. Suicide bomb attacks on Iraqi school, Shi'ite pilgrims, kill 29

Source: Reuters

Suicide bomb attacks on Iraqi school, Shi'ite pilgrims, kill 29

By Ziad al-Sinjary
MOSUL, Iraq | Sun Oct 6, 2013 9:45am EDT

(Reuters) - A suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into the playground of a primary school in northern Iraq and blew himself up, killing 14 children and their headmaster on Sunday, police and medical sources said.

Another suicide bomber attacked a group of Shi'ite pilgrims on their way to visit a shrine in Baghdad, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 30, some of them critically, police said.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for either bombing, but the tactics used point to the Sunni Islamist al Qaeda, which views Shi'ites as non-believers and has been regaining momentum this year.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/06/us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE99504N20131006

[cqo_000]

12. It is such a monstrous crime and it makes my blood run cold to think of it

[oberliner]

13. Same here

Very depressing.