Bomber wreaks carnage at Kurdish funeral

A SUICIDE car bomb exploded at the funeral of a Kurdish official in northern Iraq yesterday, killing 20 Iraqis and wounding more than 30 and bringing the death toll in three days of insurgent attacks to at least 100.

The attack occurred in the city of Tal Afar, 90 miles east of the Syrian border, said Khisru Goran,

The attacks, which follow the approval of Iraq’s first democratically elected government last week, are aimed at deflating hopes in Washington and Baghdad that the installation of the new government, scheduled for tomorrow, would curb the insurgency.