Suicide bombers cause more carnage

A suicide bomber wearing a belt packed with explosives blew himself up outside a bank in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk today, killing 23 people, including pensioners waiting for checks and child street vendors.

A suicide car bomber also rammed his vehicle into an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing five soldiers and wounding two others in Kan’an, about about 30 miles north of Baghdad, Iraqi Army Col. Ismael Ibrahim said. Two civilians were also wounded in the attack claimed by the Ansar al-Sunnah Army – affiliated with al-Qaida in Iraq.