(Reuters (Alternet) BAGHDAD, Aug 14 (Reuters) - At least 175 people were killed when three suicide bombers driving fuel tankers attacked a town, home to an ancient minority sect, in northern Iraq on Tuesday in one of the worst single incidents in the four-year-old war.
Iraqi army Captain Mohammad al-Jaad said at least another 200 people were wounded in the bombings in separate Yazidi neighbourhoods in the town of Kahtaniya, west of Mosul.
(IraqSlogger) Mosul, Aug 14 (VOI)- Scores of civilians were killed or wounded on Tuesday evening in a string of blasts that took place near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a security source said."Two cars rigged with explosives simultaneously detonated in Siba Sheikh Khidr housing compound, west of Mosul, killing 175 civilians and wounding over 200," the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
(Edmonton Journal) BAGHDAD - Suicide bombers driving fuel tankers killed 20 people and wounded 70 in what appeared to be an attack on an ancient minority sect in northern Iraq on Tuesday, police said.Police said it appeared three bombers driving separate tankers had attacked Yazidi sect members in different neighbourhoods in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, detonating their vehicles in quick succession.
(Guardian) BAGHDAD (AP) - Three suicide truck bombers targeted members of an ancient religious sect in northwestern Iraq, killing at least 20 people. In Baghdad, dozens of uniformed gunmen in 17 official vehicles stormed an Oil Ministry compound and abducted a deputy oil minister and three other officials, a ministry spokesman and police said.Nobody claimed responsibility for the bombings targeting the Yazidis - a primarily Kurdish sect that worships an angel figure considered to be the devil by some Muslims and Christians.
(yNet) A suicide truck bomb killed two people, wounded five and badly damaged a bridge linking Baghdad to northern Iraq on Tuesday, police said.
(CBC News) Three suicide bombers struck separate areas in Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 27 people, police said.The first attack struck the Thiraa Dijla bridge in Taji, 18 kilometres north of the capital, a strategic bridge leading to the city of Mosul.
(BBC) The blasts apparently targeted a Kurdish religious minority, the Yazidi sect, near Mosul. At least four blasts hit areas which house the community.A Mosul police source told the BBC that there had been "large loss of life".
Tensions between the sect and local Muslims have grown since a Yazidi girl was reportedly stoned by her community in April for converting to Islam.
(CNN) BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Suicide bombings in a northern Iraqi town Tuesday targeted a religious minority and left at least 120 people dead and 150 wounded, according to police officials, who said there were three bombings in three locations.Iraqi army officials, however, said there were four blasts that killed at least 175 and wounded 200.
Three bombers detonated three trucks laden with explosives in three locations around 8 p.m., officials said.
The blasts took place in the Yazidi town of Qahtaniya, about 60 miles west of Mosul. The Yazidi sect is a mainly Kurdish minority.
(MSNBC) BAGHDAD - Four suicide bombers hit Kurdish Yazidi communities with nearly simultaneous attacks on Tuesday, killing at least 175 people and wounding 200 others, said Iraqi military and local officials in northwest Iraq.(...)They said at least 30 homes were destroyed in the bombings.Yazidis are members of an ancient, primarily Kurdish, religious sect that worships an angel figure some that Christians and Muslims believe to be the devil.
(FoxNews)BAGHDAD — The Iraqi military said four homicide bombers hit Kurdish communities in northwest Iraq with nearly simultaneous attacks on Tuesday, killing at least 175 people and wounding 200 others. However, these numbers could not be confirmed by American officials.