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At least 175 killed in Iraq suicide bombing

Updated on 14 August 2007

Source ITN

At least 175 people have been killed by suicide bombers in one of the worst attacks since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Three suicide bombers drove fuel tankers into a town, home to an ancient minority sect, in northern Iraq.

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.

US aircraft were helping to ferry the wounded to hospitals.

Yazidis are members of a pre-Islamic Kurdish sect and live in northern Iraq and Syria.

Yazidis in Iraq say they have often faced discrimination. In April gunmen shot dead 23 factory workers from the sect in the northern city of Mosul.

The US government has sent an additional 30,000 troops to Iraq this year and moved them from large bases into small neighbourhood outposts in an effort to reduce sectarian violence in the capital and surrounding provinces.

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