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Kirkuk, Iraq (AFP) Nov 6, 2010 Three car bombs exploded at dawn on Saturday outside the homes of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party officials in northern Iraq, wounding 34 people, police said. "At about 6:00 am (0300 GMT) three booby-trapped cars exploded simultaneously outside the homes of three officials of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in north Kirkuk, wounding 34 people," said Brigadier General Adel Zeinalabedine. The senior police commander had earlier said that 25 people were wounded in the attacks on the PUK -- a Kurdish former rebel movement which is led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. The multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk, 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad, lies at the heart of an oil-rich province which is at the centre of a dispute between Arabs, Turkmen and Kurds. In other violence on Saturday, twin mortar attacks targeting Baghdad's Abu Nawas neighbourhood and the fortified Green Zone, which houses many embassies and government institutions in the capital, wounded two people. Both casualties were in Abu Nawas, sources close to the interior ministry said. Bomb attacks in Baghdad and in the town of Tarmiyah, a former Al-Qaeda stronghold north of the capital, also wounded four policemen, security sources said.
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