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Telecom company guards killed, wounded in attack

March 16, 2009 - 08:50:10

KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Two security personnel working for Asiacell Telecom were killed or wounded in an armed attack in Kirkuk city, a local police chief said on Monday.

“At a late hour on Sunday (March 15) night, unknown gunmen launched an armed attack on an Asiacell telecommunications tower near Anwar al-Aasi village, killing a security guard and wounding another,” Brig. Sarhad Qadir told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Asiacell refused to comment on the incident during a phone call with the agency.
Asiacell, the first mobile telecommunications company in Iraq, was established in the city of Sulaimaniya in 1999.
Kirkuk, an-oil rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad.

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