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A bomber in a lorry has killed at least 19 people in a Kurdish village near Mosul, the northern Iraqi city.
The attack, which also wounded 13 people, occurred just after midnight on Thursday (2100 GMT on Wednesday) in Wardak, Mohammed Jalal, a police officer, said.
A second attack on the village, located 30km east of Mosul, was averted when Kurdish police killed a driver before he could detonate his explosives, Jalal said.
Women and children were killed in the blast and homes were damaged.
Soldiers and police sealed off the area and most of the wounded were taken to hospital.
Another blast killed eight people in the city of Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad, earlier on Wednesday.
The car bombing occurred near the home of a leader of a local Awakening Council, the name given to Sunni militias now working with the US military in Iraq.
Political tension
Mosul, 350km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, and its surrounding area is one of the most violent regions in Iraq, with Arabs and Kurdish politicians locked in dispute over territory and oil.
Attacks have increased in recent weeks - becoming almost daily. On Tuesday four US soldiers and 10 Iraqi police officers were killed in northern Iraq.
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Map locating the area of a truck bomb attack near Mosul in northern Iraq where at least 17 people were killed in an explosion.
Agencies
