3 Kurdish security wounded in Qalaat-Diza suicide bombing

SULAIMANIYA / IraqiNews.com: Three Kurdish security elements were wounded in the suicide bombing that took place earlier Wednesday in the Qalaat-Diza district. “One of the injuries is serious,” a local security source told IraqiNews.com news agency. Earlier, another security source said that a suicide bomber on Wednesday blew himself up near a gathering of the Pehsmerga (Kurdish armed) forces in the Qalaat-Diza district, northeast of the Sulaimaniya city. “The bomber came from Iran,” a local security source told IraqiNews.com news agency. He explained that Kurdish security forces recognized the bomber and opened fire on him, but he was able to blow himself up. Sulaimaniya city lies 364 km north of Baghdad. MH (P)/SR 27