Eight Kurdish police were killed and nine officers were injured in a suicide attack in northern Iraq on Sunday.

Eight Kurdish police were killed and nine officers were injured in a suicide attack in northern Iraq on Sunday.

The bomber blew up a car beside a three-vehicle police convoy in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, also wounding nine officers, district official Shalal Abdul Baban told AFP.
A doctor and police confirmed the toll.

The town is part of a swathe of northern territory that Kurds want to incorporate into their three-province autonomous region over the strong objections of the federal government in Baghdad -- a dispute that diplomats say is one of the main threats to the country's long-term stability.