Islamic State claims car bomb at U.S. Consulate in Erbil - SITE

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Islamic State claims car bomb at U.S. Consulate in Erbil - SITE
The Islamic State militant group claimed a car bomb attack outside the U.S. consulate in Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, the jihadist monitoring group SITE said on Friday.         
 
It cited an Islamic State account on Twitter saying fighters from its Kirkuk division "were able to detonate a car bomb on the building of the American Consulate in the city, which led to killing and wounding many of them".   

A car bombing at the entrance to the U.S. consulate in the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region killed at least one person and wounded five others on Friday, the local mayor said.       
 
The State Department said no U.S. personnel were killed in the blast that it said was caused by a "vehicle-borne improvised explosive device" that went off right outside the entrance to the heavily guarded compound.         
 
Semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan is an important partner in a U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants who have seized swathes of Iraq.         
 
A Reuters witness heard the blast which was followed by brief gunfire. Such attacks are rare in Erbil, a haven of relative safety in a country torn apart by insurgency and sectarian strife where, in many areas, bombings are a daily occurrence.          
 
"A car bomb exploded outside the entrance to the U.S. consulate," Nihad Qoja, the mayor of Erbil's city center, told Reuters. "It seems the consulate was the target."           
 
He said the bomber had killed one person and wounded five others. It was not immediately clear who had been killed.       
 
The blast produced a plume of black smoke that rose high above the Ankawa district, a predominantly Christian neighborhood packed with cafes that is popular with foreigners.       
 
Also on Friday, at least 27 people were killed by two car bombs in the Iraqi capital, police and medical sources said.       
 
One of the blasts happened in a market in the southwestern Hay al-Amel neighborhood and the other in the eastern district of al-Habibiya, the sources said.
 
 
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