At least three die in Iraq attacks
A suicide bomber on a bicycle blew himself up Sunday amid a crowd of demonstrators in northern Iraq who were protesting Israel's operation in Gaza Strip, killing one demonstrator and wounding 16 others, Iraqi police said. According to the AP, the bomber rode his bicycle into the demonstration of some 1,300 people in the center of the northern city of Mosul, said a police officer.
The demonstration was organized by the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party. The party's Mosul spokesman, Yahiya Abid Mahjoub, complained that police and the Iraqi army had not taken security precautions for the demonstration. There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack, the officer said. "The ones who targeted our brothers in Gaza are the same who targeted us in Mosul today. They are agents of Israel," Mahjoub said.
Also Sunday, police in Fallujah said a bomb went off on the outskirts of the city, killing two civilians and wounding four others. A police officer said the bomb exploded in a parking lot where farmers and other merchants gather to buy and sell goods.