Twin bombings kill 21 in northern Iraq

At least 50 others were wounded in twin blasts near the northern city of Mosul.

A double bombing near the northern city of Mosul killed 21 people and wounded 50, police said on Wednesday.

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A parked car bomb detonated near an Iraqi army base in Sharqat, about 70 kilometres south of Mosul, on Tuesday night, and a suicide bomber detonated his explosives as a crowd gathered at the scene of the first bombing, police said.