The death toll from twin suicide bomb attacks at a policeman house in the town of Tal-Afar on Thursday, rose to 35 and 70 people were wounded, a provincial police source said.

"Our latest reports said that 35 people were killed, including the policeman and his wife, and 70 others wounded in the twin suicide bomb attacks in Tal-Afar," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Early in the morning, a suicide bomber wearing an explosive-belt stormed the house of a policeman in Tal-Afar and blew himself up, the source said.

Minutes later another suicide bomber detonated among dozens of onlookers who gathered at the house, the source added.

Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, has been a stronghold for insurgent groups, including al-Qaida organization.

Elsewhere in Baghdad, double roadside bomb explosions struck a busy marketplace at the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in the morning, killing seven people and wounding more than 20 others, the police said.

The attacks came few days after the pullout of US troops from Iraqi towns and cities, according to agreement signed late last year between Baghdad and Washington.

(Xinhua News Agency July 9, 2009)