At least 90 people were injured including local police chief Brigadier Sarhad Qader and the press officer of the police directorate, whose conditions are described as critical.

BBC: Iraq violence: 'Many dead' in Kirkuk police HQ attack

In Kirkuk, 250km (150 miles) north of Baghdad, four bombs were planted near the house of a military officer, the city's police commander, Brig Gen Sarhad Qadir, told AP.

BBC: Aftermath of bombing in Sadr City

Amongst the more unusual tourist destinations hoping to make a splash at WTM 2011 are Sarhad Tourtism Corporation, a public sector tourism organisation in the North Western Frontier Province of Pakistan (the tribal belt suspected by Global Intelligence Agencies to be the hotbed of Al-Qaeda).

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