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| Kop dies defending Kirkuk oil facility |
| 2018-02-26 |
| Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Three policemen, tasked with guarding an oilfield in Iraq’s oil-rich province of Kirkuk, were killed and injured in an attack by Islamic State militants on Saturday evening, a security source said. “IS members attacked an oil police station, located near the oil well no. 43 in Khubbaz field, leaving a policeman killed and third injured,” the source told Al-Arabiya.net The attack, according to the source, is the first one launched by the militants since Iraqi troops recaptured Hawija town, located southwest of Kirkuk, in October. Another source told Xinhua news agency that the attack was carried out by 10 to 15 IS and that confrontations broke out between the attackers and the police force, resulting in the killing of two policemen and the wounding of three others. Kirkuk, which Iraqi troops retook from the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, has five oilfields of Papa karkar, Havana, Bai Hassan, Jambur and Khubbaz. ISIS suicide bomber booms Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) A suicide attacker has blown up himself near one of the headquarters of the pro-government paramilitary troops in central Kirkuk, a police source said. Speaking to AlSumaria News on Sunday, the source said, “a suicide attacker, wearing a suicide belt, blew up himself in the morning, near a headquarter of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) in central Kirkuk. Human losses are still unclear.” “Security troops cordoned off the blast spot and imposed tight measures,” the source, who preferred anonymity, added. |
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