1st LD: 39 people killed in triple attacks in Iraq's Salahudin

A total of 39 people were killed and some 40 others wounded on Sunday in two bombings and a gunfire attacks in Iraq's northern central province of Salahudin, a provincial security source told Xinhua.

A barrel filled with explosives detonated in the morning near workers repairing a bridge in Shishin area in southern the provincial capital city of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, killing 13 people and wounding 30 others, the source said on condition of anonymity.

In a separate incident, a booby-trapped car went off at a parking lot in the city of Samarra, some 120 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, leaving ten people killed and ten others wounded, the source said.

The blast set fire to several nearby cars and caused damages to many others at the scene, the source added.

Early in the day, gunmen believed to be affiliated to Islamic State (IS) militant group, broke into the house a tribal leader in Tulul al-Baj area, some 50 km north of Tikrit, and opened fire in the house and killed 16 people, the source said.

The killed people were the tribal leader himself and ten of his family members, along with five people who happened to be at his house as guests, the source added.

Terrorist acts, violence and armed conflicts killed 1,792 Iraqis and wounded 1,358 others in October across Iraq, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq said.

Many blame the current chronic instability, cycle of violence, and the emergence of extremist groups, such as the IS, on the U.S., which invaded and occupied Iraq in March 2003. Endit