KIRKUK
Security forces captured two suicide bombers before they could detonate their explosives at a hotel in Iraq’s Kirkuk province Friday, officials said.
However, there was a third bomber involved in the attack on the Qasr Hotel, who succeeded in exploding his vest, but apart from killing himself, he did not cause any civilian casualties.
All the bombers were said to be affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorist group, the officials added.
The hotel was located close to Kirkuk’s former security department building.
Iraq has been gripped by a security vacuum since June 2014 when the ISIL stormed the northern province of Mosul and declared what it calls a caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
