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IED wounds 2 in Kirkuk

June 20, 2009 - 07:14:02

KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Two civilians on Saturday were injured in an explosive device blast that ripped through Kirkuk city, according to a local security source.

“This morning, an improvised explosive device (IED) targeted the convoy of Col. Abdullah Qadir, the director of the police dogs department in Kirkuk police, wounding two civilians,” a source from the Joint Coordination Center in the city told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Two vehicles, including a civilian car, were destroyed by the blast, according to the source.

Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians, and Arabs, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

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