Nine dead across Iraq as suicide bomber targets Baghdad university

Published April 20th, 2014 - 10:17 GMT
According to an AFP tally, violence has killed more than 460 people in Iraq this month alone and upwards of 2,700 this year. (AFP/File)
According to an AFP tally, violence has killed more than 460 people in Iraq this month alone and upwards of 2,700 this year. (AFP/File)

At least nine people were killed across Iraq on Sunday after several bombing attacks rocked the country, security and medical officials said. 

At least three people were killed and nine were wounded in Baghdad after a suicide bomber entered a university in the north of the capital, officials told Agence France Presse (AFP).

Officials gave varying accounts of the bombing of Baghdad's Imam Kadhim University, according to AFP. 

One police colonel told the news agency that the suicide bomber had been able to enter the university and detonate the explosives, while a second attacker and a gunman were killed by security forces.

An official from the Interior Ministry reported that the attack took place outside the university and a second potential bomber was shot dead by police, AFP reported.

In Babil province, south of Baghdad, three were killed and four were wounded in a car bomb attack. 
 
Further south in the country, two more car bomb attacks killed three and wounded 26 in Al Rumaitha in Muthanna province, according to AFP. 
 
Sunday's attacks come during a recent prolonged surge in sectarian violence in Iraq. In less than two weeks, Baghdad will hold a parliamentary election that will be a major test for the country's security forces.

 

According to an AFP tally, violence has killed more than 460 people in Iraq this month alone and upwards of 2,700 this year.

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