Car bomb kills 3, wounds 23 in N.Iraq-police

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Source: Reuters

- A suicide car bomber killed three people and wounded 23 others in an attack next to a sports ground in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar on Saturday, police said.

The three dead were two off-duty policemen and one off-duty soldier. Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, and the nearby city of Mosul have been the target of numerous attacks by suspected al Qaeda militants in recent months.

Earlier on Saturday, a bomb blast outside Iraq's national journalists' union in Baghdad wounded the union's head and three others.

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