A well-orchestrated series of twin bomb explosions rocked the Tal Afar city located in Nineveh province in Northern Iraq on Thursday morning. The Nineveh Military Operations Command revealed the current death count standing at 43 with 65 injured.

The ghastly incident occurred within few days subsequent to the departure of the U.S. troops as they passed on security control to the local power on June 30. The Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki has cautioned just the month before on the possible augment of terror attacks in a bid to trample down the mass buoyant self-reliance in the nation’s security strength that ensued after the exit of the U.S battle troops.

The attackers gave conclusion to their heinous intentions within minute’s proximity at around 7:30a.m.local time according to police officials. The first bomber had donned a police uniform, blasting himself to tatters close to the residence of a police official and his brother who were involved in counteracting terrorism. The entire kin of the police sergeant lost their lives while his brother was critically injured in the incident. As several onlookers thronged the blast site to offer assistance, a second blast ensued.

There were violent outbreaks in Nineveh province on Wednesday where Shiites were the sole targets. A car bomb blew up on Wednesday in Mosul, the provincial capital of Nineveh that exhumed 19 lives and injured many others. On Thursday morning, a bomb set off in the bustling market area of Sadr City in Baghdad, a pre-dominantly Shiite shanty taking the lives of seven while wounding 20 others.

Bombs slyly planted in a bicycle and car in a Shiite majority locality located in south-west Baghdad injured six persons. In the Karrada district in Baghdad, a road bomb intended to attack the convoy belonging to the Central Bank governor, narrowly missed him, while killing one onlooker and injuring five others.