| A suicide car bombing has killed at least six people at a police station in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, reports say. The BBC’s Stephen Sackur at the scene says a car exploded in a ball of fire in a Kurdish neighbourhood. The blast is at least the fourth since the beginning of the year to target Iraqi security services. US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Baghdad on a previously unannounced visit shortly after the blast took place. Our correspondent says the attack in Kirkuk was clearly aimed at Iraqi police. There were no Americans present when the bomber struck, he says. As many as 400 people were at the station, in the Rahimawa neighbourhood, when the blast took place as one shift was replacing another. US forces have now cordoned off the scene, he says, and medical teams are clearing away body parts. |