| The Kurdish governor of Iraq's northern province of Kirkuk survived assassination when a car bomb exploded Thursday as his convoy passed by, police said. The attack took place at about 8:30 a.m. in the center of the oil rich city of Kirkuk, close to the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), a leading Kurdish party, the police said. Kirkuk Governor Abdel-Rahman Mostafa was not hurt in the attack, while one pedestrian was killed and four others wounded at the Al-Tabaqchali overpass, some 100 meters from the PUK building. |