Makhmoor Explosion

Makhmoor is a town and district south of the city of Erbil, which is part of Erbil governorate. It is just outside of the Kurdistan Regional Government's administrative area, unfortunately. The area is populated by a mix of Kurdistanis and Arabs.

I say unfortunately above because, if the area was in the KRG area, it would be much safer. Everyone would agree with that.

The hospitals in Erbil were once again busy, I heard that new medical graduates were showing up to assist in such numbers that they were getting in the way. At least there is a reserve.

Here is an excerpt from a CNN report:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/13/iraq.main/index.htm

The deadliest of Sunday's bombings killed 43 people and wounded 115 more when a suicide truck bomb erupted in northern Iraq, a Kurdistan government spokesman said.

The brunt of the blast rocked the mayor's office and the neighboring Kurdistan Democratic Party building in the town of Makhmoor just outside Mosul, the spokesman said. Makhmoor is near the Kurdish-controlled region of northern Iraq.

The bomb detonated as local officials from various nearby towns held a meeting, a KDP official said.

The wounded were rushed to area hospitals in nearby Mosul and Irbil. Hospital officials in Irbil said they received at least 12 dead people and at least 60 with injuries. At least 50 people were hospitalized at Mosul General Hospital, but there was no breakdown of the casualties.

The attack comes four days after at least 12 people were killed and 50 were wounded when a truck bomb exploded outside an office of the Ministry of the Interior in Irbil in northern Iraq, according to a Kurdish Coalition spokesman.