BAGHDAD — Four suicide bombers drove trucks packed with explosives into a complex housing members of a small religious sect in northern Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 175 in the deadliest attack on civilians in the country in nearly a year.
The simultaneous blasts targeting the Yazidi community in Qahtaniya, about 70 miles west of Mosul, also injured 200 people and further damaged ethnic cohesion in a country beset by sectarian conflict.
Earlier Tuesday, a suicide bomber drove a truck laden with explosives onto a key bridge linking Baghdad with vital northern oil fields. At least 10 people died when the concrete span plunged into the murky waters of a canal linking the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
