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| Suicide bomber kills 30 in Iraqi village | | | TUZ KHURMATU(IRAQ), JUL 7
A suicide truck bomber ripped the heart out of a northern Iraqi village today, killing at least 30 people and demolishing a row of homes and shops, police and medics said.
Ambulances and private cars ferried dozens of bloodied corpses and injured civilians to clinics in the nearby town of Tuz Khurmatu and the provincial capital Kirkuk, where desperate relatives waited for news of the missing.
Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Ali Rasheed, deputy police chief in Tuz Khurmatu, said the suicide blast had devastated Emerli, a small rural community of people from Iraq's Shiite Turkoman minority.
"I heard the cries of my child, then I heard nothing else until I woke in hospital," sobbed middle-aged housewife Sukaina Abdul Razak, whose clay brick home collapsed when the blast ripped through the village.
"I don't know the fate of my husband and my family. They were all in the kitchen, but I was in my room," she told AFP, as she was treated for head injuries in Kirkuk's overcrowded emergency room.
Deadly shrapnel from the blast killed shoppers hundreds of metres from its epicentre, wounded grocer Hussein Abu Al-Hussein Akba Aziz said in Kirkuk.
"We have never seen an attack like that in Ermeli. The whole village was shrouded in smoke and dust," he said, grimacing from a leg injury. "I was serving a woman and her child in my shop. They were both killed."
As medical staff in Tuz Khurmatu scrambled to cope with the arrivals, Doctor Jawdat Abdullah said: "We've received 30 bodies and 105 wounded, an that might increase as rescuers are still pulling people out of the rubble. Some of the houses collapsd on people, and more may be trapped inside," another officer, captain Nuzad Abdallah, told AFP from the scene.
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