BAGHDAD, Iraq — A pair of suicide bombings targeted a police station and a crowded bank in the northern cities of Mosul and Kirkuk Thursday, killing at least 24 people and wounding 72, police said.
The Mosul bombing targeted a major police station, killing 12 people and wounding 25, many of them motorists waiting to buy gasoline at a nearby gas station, police said. Authorities imposed a curfew after the attack on Abi Tamam police station at 7:15 a.m., but it was lifted nearly six hours later.
A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, said the Mosul police station was hit by three suicide car bombs. Elsewhere in the city, he said, two suicide car bombs hit U.S. military convoys. He did not say whether there were casualties from the attacks on the convoys.[...]
