Dozens die after suicide bomber detonates two car bombs in front of Police Headquarters

33 people have been killed after a suicide bomber detonated two car bombs and gunmen disguised as police storm a city police compound in Kirkuk in two co-ordinated suicide car bombings and a gun attack in northern Iraq.

A car bomb went off at the city's telephone exchange building and simultaneously at a police base.

Two militants dressed in police uniforms and armed with guns, grenades and suicide vests also stormed the police compound in the city of Kirkuk.

Suicide bomber kills 21 near Pakistan mosque

A powerful suicide bomb blast killed at least 21 people Friday outside a Shia Muslim mosque in a part of Pakistan’s troubled northwest plagued by sectarian violence.

The bomber detonated his explosives as worshipers attending prayers at a mosque in the town of Hangu were leaving the building, local officials and witnesses said. The blast also injured more than 35 people, some of whom were transported to hospitals in critical condition.

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Suicide bomb attack on Nigeria checkpoint kills eight

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A car packed with explosives exploded in Shagari Housing Estate of Damaturu in Yobe State around noon today.

"The lone suicide bomber detonated the bomb before the car he was in could be stopped, killing the six soldiers and one civilian," Patrick Egbmuniwe, the police commissioner for Yobe State, told Reuters by telephone.

"Another civilian died of his wounds in hospital shortly after."

Witness Abdullahi Sabo said the whole neighborhood shook when the Damaturu bomb exploded.

"The car blew up outside the front of my shop, the explosion was deadly," he said. "After the dust settled, many security operatives were rushed to the hospital."

In a separate incident, police said suspected sect members had shot dead a former commissioner for the environment in neighboring Borno state, the epicenter of the Boko Haram insurgency, in the early hours of Saturday.