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Suicide Attack Kills 35 in Northern Iraq Suicide Bomber Kills Dozens in Northern Iraqi City
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BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber attacked a provincial police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday morning, a police source said, killing at least 35. Three additional suicide attackers who attempted to enter the General Directorate of Kirkuk Police after the blast were killed by the police. BAGHDAD — A suicide car bomber attacked a provincial police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday morning, the police and the city’s civil defense director said, killing at least 36 people and wounding 105. Three other suicide attackers who tried to enter the police headquarters after the blast were killed by the police.
The director of civil defense in Kirkuk said 35 people were killed and 77 wounded, including police officers. The death toll was expected to rise. Security forces cordoned off the site and closed government buildings and the main roads in Kirkuk as ambulances took the wounded to a hospital. The commander of the Kirkuk police was among those wounded and was taken to Erbil for treatment.
Security forces cordoned off the scene and closed government buildings and main roads in Kirkuk as ambulances rushed to transport the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment. Nauzad Mohamed, a police officer who was wounded in the attack, said the bomber was “driving a police car and wearing a police uniform.”
“The explosion happened when we asked him to stop for a search,” Mr. Mohamed said. “Then everything collapsed. I can’t believe I survived.”
After the blast, others attacked the police headquarters on foot.
Faris Mustafa, a police officer who also was wounded, said: “I saw the three suicide bombers running into the police building. They were throwing hand grenades at us. We opened fire on them and killed them immediately.”
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Kirkuk’s governor blamed terrorist gangs seeking to destabilize the city, about 180 miles north of Baghdad.
Kurdish troops and Iraqi government security forces have been sharing responsibility for security in Kirkuk. Kurds want to incorporate it into their semiautonomous region in northern Iraq, but Arabs and Turkmens in the city oppose such a move.
The attack on Sunday was the third in recent weeks in the area.

An employee of The New York Times contributed reporting from Kirkuk, Iraq.