Iraq attacks kill 10 as bomber hits university
BAGHDAD, April 20, 2014 (AFP) - Attacks in Iraq, including a suicide bombing at a university in north Baghdad, killed at least 10 people on Sunday, security and medical officials said.
The attacks, which come as Iraq suffers a prolonged surge in bloodshed, took place less than two weeks before a parliamentary election that will be a major test for security forces.
Officials gave varying accounts of the bombing of Baghdad's Imam Kadhim University.
A police colonel said a suicide attacker entered the university before setting off explosives, while another bomber and a gunman were killed by security forces.
An interior ministry official meanwhile said the bombing took place at the entrance to the university, while a second bomber was shot dead.
The attack killed at least three people and wounded at least nine, officials said.
Iraq is hit by daily bombings and shootings that kill hundreds of people each month, but attacks targeting universities are relatively rare.
In Babil province, south of Baghdad, a car bomb killed three people and wounded four, while two more car bombs killed three people and wounded 26 in Al-Rumaitha in Muthanna province, further south.
And in Saadiyah, north of Baghdad, a magnetic “sticky bomb” on a vehicle killed an army lieutenant colonel.