BAGHDAD – Iraqi officials say 12 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in a Kurdish city near the Iranian border where tensions have been high since last weekend's elections.
The attack comes as Iraqi electoral officials prepare to release the first official preliminary returns from Saturday's vote for provincial councils.
Kurdish and police officials say the bomber blew himself up Thursday inside a crowded restaurant in Khanaqin.
The city's police chief Col. Azad Eisa says 15 other people were wounded in the attack. He says most of the victims were Kurds.
The disputed city has been a source of friction between Kurds and the Arab-run central government. Hundreds of Kurds complained on election day that they couldn't find their names on voter registration lists.
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BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi official says a roadside bomb targeted a government convoy in Baghdad that was carrying a deputy education minister but injured no 
one.
Ministry spokesman Waleed Hussein said the bomb exploded Thursday morning as the convoy passed through the Baghdad neighborhood of Mansour.
Hussein says deputy education minister Muadh al-Jibouri escaped injury.
The bombing is the latest attack on an education official. Last week, the Minister of Higher Education escaped injury when a roadside bomb exploded in the same neighborhood. Three civilians were killed.
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