Students inspect a damaged house after a bomb attack in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad December 17, 2012. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed
KIRKUK (Reuters) - Bombers killed 12 people in northern Iraqi towns and villages on Monday in the second consecutive day of attacks in areas at the centre of a bitter feud between Baghdad and autonomous Kurdistan.
The ethnically mixed, disputed territories - the swathe of land marking Iraq from the area administered by Kurds in the north - have been a potential flashpoint for conflict since the buffer of the last American troops left a year ago.
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