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Bomb outside bank in Kirkuk kills 18
A bomb exploded outside a bank in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Tuesday, killing 18 people including pensioners waiting in line and child street vendors selling groceries, police said. Another 53 people were wounded by the blast, said Capt. Salam Zangana, an official at a hospital where the victims were being brought. The roadside bomb exploded at 9 a.m. near a line of people waiting outside the Rafidiyan Bank in downtown Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, police Col. Shiraz Mohammed said. The bomb was planted outside the bank, close to which is a walkover bridge crossing the road. Children and other vendors selling products from sugar to kitchen utensils on both the bridge and the road underneath were among the 18 people killed, Zangana said. The pavement outside the bank was strewn with rubble and glass from the building, while several bodies were seen lying underneath wreckage. At least two cars parked nearby were set on flames. Kirkuk is an ethnically mixed city where insurgents have routinely launched deadly attacks apparently seeking to foment ethnic tension.
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