At least 34 people were killed and 60 wounded in a double suicide attack in northern Iraq on Thursday, with women and children among the casualties, police and military officials said.
Two bombers blew themselves up just minutes apart in Tal Afar in an attack against a house used as a court annexe to interrogate suspects in “terrorist attacks,” police colonel Khaled Omar told AFP.
Another two bombs went off in a market in the mainly Shiite district of Sadr City in Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.
Tal Afar is a mostly Turkmen town has often been the target of attacks. In March 2007, it was hit by one of the deadliest single attacks in Iraq since the US-led invasion of 2003 when a suicide truck bomb killed more than 150 people.

The spate of bombings comes just over a week after US troops left Iraq’s towns and cities on June 30 under an agreement that paves the way for a complete American military withdrawal by the end of 2011.