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Bomb explodes near security official’s house in Kirkuk

November 11, 2008 - 04:27:18


KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: A bomb exploded on Tuesday near the house of a security official in southern Kirkuk, the chief of local police said.

“An explosive device, planted near the house of Colonel Jamal Fares, the deputy director of the districts police, in al-Askari neighborhood in southern Kirkuk, went off at 6:00 p.m., causing severe material damage,” Brigadier Sarhad Qader told Aswat al-Iraq.

“The colonel was at his house when the bomb went off and he was not hurt,” he added.

Kirkuk, 250 km (156 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, sits on the ruins of a 5,000-year-old settlement. Because of the strategic geographical location of the city, Kirkuk was the battle ground for three empires, Assyria, Babylonia and Media which controlled the city at various times.

Kirkuk is the centre of the northern Iraqi petroleum industry. It is a historically and ethnically mixed city populated by Assyrians, Kurds, Arabs and Iraqi Turkmen. The population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2008.

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