KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: A police colonel died on Tuesday of wounds he sustained by a sticky bomb explosion, a police source said. 

 

"Colonel Qassem Abdulnabi from the Kirkuk General Inspector Office, died in a hospital of serious wounds he sustained on Monday," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

 

A police source had said yesterday that a bomb, stuck to a civilian vehicle, went off in al-Askari neighborhood, southern Kirkuk, killing the driver and injuring two more, including Colonel Qassem Abdulnabi and his brothers.

 

Kirkuk lies 280 km northeast of Baghdad.

 

 

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