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Up to 10 Iraqis hit by car bomb attack in Kirkuk
 (KUNA) -- Up to 10 Iraqis, including six policemen were injured in Iraq Thursday due to the explosion of a booby-trapped car in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a police source told the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA). It added that the car bomb targeted a police patrol in the Exhibitions Street, near a public square. The explosion injured six policemen and four civilians. Three other mortar rounds targeted the Northern Oil company on the Kirkuk-Biji Rd near the village of Fakhar. No casualties were reported as a result of the mortar attack, the source said. It added that one more mortar round fell on infrastructure premises on the same road near the Sidi Humaid village. No casualties or damages were reported.Meanwhile, the authorities caught seven insurgents outside the Rashad area and confiscated three Klashnikov guns from them. The operation was aimed at purging the area from terrorists who were trying to ingnite sectarianism in the area, the source said. The Iraqi forces, along with the multi-national ones had started, on Thursday, the Blessed Day operation aimed at chasing armed groups in Rashad, west of Kirkuk. A military source said the operation was an extension to a previous purging operation called iron hammer. The earlier operation was launched by the Iraqi forces last week near the Howeija and Zab areas and districts near them in search of armed groups. On Wednesday, four Iraqis were killed and 16 others injured due a bomb, which exploded in a cafe in Kirkuk. In a related development, the US army announced its soldiers arrested seven armed men, including two who from the Al-Qaeda organization, a statement said. It added that the operation took place "during a raid on the Mahmoudieh village." The two Al-Qaeda members were found to be involved in facilitating the infiltration of foreigners into Iraq and in planting bombs, the US army statement said. The US forces also seized a large quantity of arms and ammunition, the statement added. In Irbil, unknown gunmen killed an Iraqi police officer in central Mosul, a police source said. The source told KUNA that two civilians were also killed in the attack. Posted by: Fred 2006-07-21 |
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