Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq

    MOSUL, Iraq, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Eleven people were wounded in a suicide bomb attack and a following roadside bomb explosion outside the office of a Kurdish party in the city of Mosul on Sunday, a provincial police source said.

    "A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest blew himself up at about 10:30 a.m. (0730 GMT) in front of the office of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the al-Nabi Younis neighborhood in northeastern Mosul," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    The attack resulted in the wounding of nine people, including one of the office guards, the source said.

    Afterwards, a roadside bomber went off near a police patrol while heading to the site of the first bombing, destroying a police vehicle and wounding two policemen aboard, the source added.

    The KDP is headed by Massoud Barzani, president of Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq.

    Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, there have been some demands from Kurdish parties that Nineveh province, including its capital Mosul, should be included in the Kurdish regional government.

    Since then, Kurdish fighters have been moving into the city causing some tensions with majority Sunni Arab population.