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Suicide truck bomb attack in Kurdish village kills at least 19, injures 30

(10 Sep 2009) 1. Wide of blast site 2. Destroyed house and children standing on rubble 3. Various of damaged car amid rubble 4. Various of ruins of houses 5. Wide of people loading possession onto vehicle 6. Various of destruction 7. Wide of two women walking out of blast site STORYLINE A suicide truck bomber hit a Kurdish village in northern Iraq before dawn on Thursday, killing at least 19 people and injuring 30 others, officials said, in what appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks targeting ethnic minorities in the region. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, but it bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida in Iraq and other Sunni insurgents who remain active in Mosul and surrounding areas. A police officer and health official in Mosul said the bomb went off in the village of Wardek, about 35 miles (55 kilometres) southeast of the city - a region where US commanders have warned that insurgents appear to be trying to stoke an Arab-Kurdish conflict. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to release the information. Local security forces fired on the driver when he refused to stop, but he was still able to detonate his bomb. A second assailant in another explosives-laden truck was shot and killed before his bomb exploded. About 250 families live in the village of simple mud-brick houses, dozens of which were destroyed. They are Shiite Kurds from a small religious sect. Insurgents in northern Iraq, who have maintained a stronghold in the city of Mosul, have frequently targeted remote villages and towns that depend on small security forces for protection. The violence that continues to plague Iraq's north and the capital has forced the government in Baghdad to acknowledge gaps in security. The violence that has continued in the Mosul area and in and around Iraq's capital is a central issue in the campaign for national elections in January. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...