A suicide bomber on Tuesday exploded a truck rigged with a bomb outside the Iraqi president's party headquarters in a northern city, killing five people and wounding 15, police said. The explosion occurred in the car park of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party of President Jalal Talabani in the northern city of Mosul, said police Col. Abdul-Kareem Ahmed al-Jibouri. He said the blast damaged the one-storey building, killing five people and setting alight five cars. The 15 injured people were taken to the Mosul General Hospital, he said. No other details were available, the Associated Press reported. Mosul is 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
