[Dawn] Twin suicide kabooms destroyed the city of Taji north of Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
on Tuesday, killing at least 35 people, officials said, after Iraq suffered its deadliest month so far this year in June.
"Thirty-five people were killed and 28 maimed when a car boom and an improvised bomb went
kaboom!simultaneously outside a government office where national identification cards are issued, and the provincial council offices," the official said.
A police officer in Taji said that one jacket wallah in a car and a second with an explosives belt had caused the carnage.
"A car boom went
kaboom!at the entrance of the identity-cards office, which is next to the provincial council building."
"When people gathered, a suicide bomber in their midst went
kaboom!his belt," he said.
He added that the mayor of Taji, security officials from the city and tribal leaders were in a meeting at the provincial council offices when the bombers struck. There was no immediate word on who the casualties were.
Storied Baghdad security front man Major General Qassim Atta said the blasts struck at 12 noon (0900 GMT).