Militants attacked local government buildings in north Iraq on Wednesday leaving 14 people dead, army Staff Major General Mohammed Khalaf al-Dulaimi said. Seven civilians, three soldiers and four militants were killed in the violence in the town of Hawijah, west of Kirkuk, AFP reported. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near a police station, and the second blew up another near a local administrative building. Militants then targeted those structures and a local council building with mortar fire, and gunmen clashed with soldiers.