At least 36 killed in Iraq bombings
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BAGHDAD, May 13 At least 36 people died Sunday in separate bombings in Iraq.In one explosion, at least 32 were killed and more than 115 wounded by a suicide truck bomber in the northern Iraq town of Makhmoor, CNN reported.Later in the day, at least four people died and 10 were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a market in a Shiite district in central Baghdad, the BBC reported.Sunday's attack on Makhmoor in Irbil Province targeted the local office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which was meeting when the bomb exploded damaging several buildings.Makhmoor's mayor, Kurdish writer Abd al-Rahman Delaf, was wounded in the attack and hospitalized, the BBC reported. Police expected the death toll to rise because many bodies were buried under rubble.Tensions in the predominantly Kurdish region have been rising because of a plan to redistribute oil wealth among the country's Kurdish, Sunni and Shiite population, the BBC reported.Copyright 2007 by UPI
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