Two Bomb Attacks Kill At Least 13 In Iraq

Baghdad, Iraq (AHN) - At least 13 people were killed and dozens injured in two separate attacks in Iraq's restive provinces on Sunday, officials said.

In the first attack, a car bomb blast killed six people and injured at least 14 others, in the Shiite dominated district located in north-eastern Baghdad.

The second attack took place in Diyala, which is one of the provinces where the insurgents are most active and is considered as one of the most dangerous parts of Arab nation. That attack killed at least seven people and injured four others.

An Iraqi government official reportedly said that among the dead were the wife, mother-in-law, one brother, two children and two guards of a Kurdish political party leader, who was injured in an assassination attempt by a roadside bomb.

The second attack took place around 12:30 p.m. local time (0930 GMT) in a town that is located 43 miles north of Baquba, which is the capital of the restive Diyala province.

Details on the first attacks were not immediately known.

The reports said the bomb hit the motorcade of Mohammed Ramadan Eisa, just outside his house in Qara Tappa town. He is a local leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party.

The current incidents followed after the U.S. military reported that the number of violent attacks on civilians and the security personnel, including the U.S. troops, had dropped to the lowest monthly level for four years.