(AKI) - Five people were killed and several others were injured in bomb attacks in northern Iraq on Wednesday. In the largest attack, three people were killed when a car bomb exploded in a crowded market in the town of Sinjar, northwest of Mosul, near the Syrian border."The car bomb exploded at a market in central Sinjar city, west of Mosul, killing three and injuring four, including two policemen," a source told news agency, Voices of Iraq.
Sinjar, 120 kilometres northwest of Mosul, is inhabited by Yazidis, a religious minority whose followers are generally situated in northern Iraq.
According to the UN High Commission for Refugees, there are about 550,000 Yazidis in Iraq and concentrated in the district of Sinjar.
In a second attack on Wednesday, a bomb targeted a police patrol in Mosul. Two Iraqi civilians were killed and nine others were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded. No police were injured in the attacks.