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Last Updated:  Saturday, 22 March, 2003, 14:17 GMT
Iraq suicide attack kills four
Four people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a checkpoint near the northern Iraqi town of Halabja.

The bomber drove up in a taxi and detonated the device, killing himself and a journalist filming nearby.

The other dead were Kurdish peshmerga fighters.

Nine people who were injured have been taken to hospital in Sulaymaniyah.

The area where the bombing happened is controlled by an Islamist group known as Komola.



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