Bombings in Iraq kill 26, wound 130

BAGHDAD -- At least 26 people were killed and 130 wounded in several bombings yesterday in Iraq, security officials said. The bombs apparently targeted Kurds.

Fifteen people, including eight Kurdish security personnel, were killed and 100 wounded in a car bombing at a complex housing the Kurdistan Democratic Party and nongovernmental organizations in Kirkuk. Three civilians died in a second car bombing targeting a Kurdish security building.

Kirkuk is at the center of a dispute between the semiautonomous Kurdish region in Iraq and the Baghdad government.

A third bombing outside the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party and a Kurdish security unit in the city of Salah Eddin, north of Baghdad, killed six people and injured 30, the Alsumaria News website reported.

In Baghdad, two police officers were killed when a bomb hit their patrol vehicle, local media reported, quoting security officials.

-- MCT