A suicide bomber on Tuesday detonated a truck rigged with a bomb outside the Iraqi president's party headquarters in a northern city, killing five people and wounding 15, police said. The blast took place in the parking lot of a building housing President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the northern city of Mosul, said police Col. Abdul-Kareem Ahmed al-Jibouri.
According to the AP, he said the explosion damaged the one-story building, killing five people and setting five cars on fire. The 15 wounded people were taken to the hospital.
Meanwhile, an Australian security contractor has died from injuries he sustained in a roadside blast in Iraq. The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said the man died on Monday. He suffered serious burns in the roadside bombing on August 3.
