Bombings targeting Kurds kill at least 10 in Iraq

A car bomb explosion followed by a suicide bomb attack targeting the offices of a Kurdish political party and security forces killed 10 people in Iraq on June 7, police said.

The blasts in the town of Jalawla, north of Baghdad, also wounded 40 people, a senior police official said.

The fresh attacks comes a day after a series of bombings mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas of Baghdad killed at least 24 people.

The six car bombings and one roadside bomb hit seven different areas of the Iraqi capital, also wounding more than 80 people.

Alos on June 7, clashes between security forces and militants in the northern city of Mosul killed 59 people. In Ramadi, west of Baghdad, militants took hundreds of students and staff hostage at a university, sparking an assault led by special forces to free them.

Violence is running at its highest levels since 2006-2007, when tens of thousands were killed in sectarian conflict between Iraq's Shiite majority and Sunni Arab minority.

More than 900 people were killed last month, according to figures separately compiled by the United Nations and the government. So far this year, more than 4,300 people have been killed, according to AFP figures.