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Kirkuk placed under curfew
(VOI) - Police forces on Monday imposed a curfew from 5:00 p.m. on Monday until 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday after the security incidents in the city, a security source said. "Commander of the Kirkuk police General Jamal Taher gave the order to impose the curfew as of 5:00 p.m. today until 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday," the source, who asked for anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "The curfew will include people and a ban on vehicles," he explained. A total of 22 persons were killed and 150 others were wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of demonstrators in downtown Kirkuk.More than five thousand people took to the streets in Kirkuk, condemning the passage of the provincial council elections law, which includes an article postponing the city's elections. On Tuesday, the Iraqi Parliament, with the approval of 127 deputies out of 140 who attended the session, passed the law on provincial council elections. On Wednesday, the Presidential Board, with the unanimity of President Jalal Talabani and his two deputies Adel Abdelmahdi and Tareq al-Hashimi, rejected the law in a rapid reaction one day after the Iraqi Parliament passed it during a session that raised hue and cry over its constitutionality. Posted by: Fred 2008-07-29 |
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