June 9, 2014 - 15:07 AMT
Truck bombs target Kurdish offices in Baghdad, 15 killed

Truck bombs targeted Monday, June 9, the offices of two Kurdish political parties north of Baghdad, killing 15 people.

The mayor in the town of Tuz Khormato said the attack happened around noon, according to the Associated Press.

Shalal Abdoul said a suicide bomber first drove his explosive-laden truck into a checkpoint leading up to the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the nearby Kurdistan Communist Party. He said as people rushed to the site of the explosion, another truck bomb exploded, presumably detonated by remote control.

It was the second double bombing at Kurdish offices in as many days. On Sunday, a suicide bomber, followed by a car bomb explosion targeted PUK offices in Jalula in the ethnically mixed Diyala province.