Baghdad, August 14: Four people have died of the wounds they sustained in a bomb attack in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh, bringing to 21 the overall death toll of the blast.
The Thursday attack took place when two bombers detonated explosives strapped to their bodies at a restaurant in the town of Sinjar, about 110 km (70 miles) northwest of the provincial capital, Mosul.
Initial reports put the number of casualties at 17 dead and 25 wounded. Later reports put the death toll at 21 and the number of injured at over 35.
The attack was the deadliest since Monday when 51 people were killed in a single incident. About 100 people have died during the past week in bomb attacks carried out in Nineveh.
Sinjar is a town whose inhabitants are members of a pre-Islamic Kurdish sect called Yazidis who live in northern Iraq and Syria.
Two years ago, an attack on the Yazidi community was one of the deadliest bomb attacks in Iraq since the start of 2007, killing and wounding nearly 800 people.
——Agencies