Bombings against two Shia places of worship in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed five people on Sunday, while an attack on a Kurdish political office left two dead, police and doctors said. Two car bombs and seven roadside bombs targeted two Shia places of worship, known as husseiniyahs, in Kirkuk, one in the city’s north and another in its south, killing a total of five people and injuring 14, a senior police officer said, adding that the attacks occurred around 1630 GMT. A doctor from Kirkuk general hospital confirmed the toll. Earlier in the day, a car bomb exploded at the local headquarters of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party in the town of Jalawla in the province of Diyalah, after a number of people seeking to join the Kurdish peshmerga security forces had gathered, a police officer said. The blast in Jalawla, which like Kirkuk lies in disputed territory, killed two recruits and wounded 13, the officer and a doctor at Jalawla Hospital said.
