Bomb attacks target Iraqi churches

Car bombs have exploded in a synchronised sequence of attacks outside at least four churches in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk, killing at least three Iraqis and wounding nine, according to police.

Col Birhan Taha said that three civilians were killed and one wounded in an attack on the Church of the Virgin in Kirkuk. Fifteen minutes earlier, another car bomb exploded outside an Orthodox church, wounding six civilians.