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Kirkuk car bomb explosion casualties reach 11

July 3, 2009 - 08:53:19

KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: The car bomb explosion that ripped through al-Zab region in the south of Kirkuk on Thursday killed two citizens and wounded nine others, a source from the joint coordination center in Kirkuk said Friday.

“The booby-trapped car that went off on Thursday (July 2) near al-Zab police station, south of Kirkuk, killed two citizens and injured 9, including three policemen,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“Police patrols carried the bodies to the morgue and the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment,” he added.

Brigadier Sarhad Qader, the Kirkuk Districts’ Police Department (KDPD) chief, had said Thursday that a car rigged with explosives went off in the region, with no word on casualties.

The oil-rich city of Kirkuk, a potpourri of mixed Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen residents, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

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