Suicide bomb strikes at Kurds in Mosul: Police

Mosul, Aug 15: A suicide bomber attacked the offices of a top Kurdish political party today in Mosul and a number of casualties were feared, a police source said.

The source said the attacker blew up a lorry packed with explosives near the office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, in the religiously divided city, 390 km north of Baghdad.

PUK offices in southern Iraq were attacked last week by followers of a Basra-based Shi'ite cleric angered at an article in the Kurdish party's official newspaper which claimed Sheikh al-Yaqoubi was fanning sectarian tension in Kirkuk.

Talabani subsequently issued a statement saying he regretted any hurt caused by the report and had had no prior knowledge of its publication.

Reuters