A suicide bomber attacked the offices of a top Kurdish political party today in Mosul.
Police said 14 people had been wounded in the explosion outside the office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, and rescuers believed bodies were buried in the rubble.
Police said the bomber detonated a dump truck packed with explosives outside the PUK office, in the eastern part of the religiously divided city, 390 kilometres north of Baghdad.
The attack follows violence against the PUK last week, when its offices in southern Iraq were ransacked by followers of a Basra-based Shia cleric.
They were angered by an article in the Kurdish party's official newspaper claiming the cleric was fanning sectarian tension in Kirkuk.