Three Iraqi soldiers were killed, 12 others wounded, on Wednesday in a number of blasts in the province of Kirkuk in northern Iraq. A Kirkuk Police source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that three Iraqi soliders were killed when an explosive device targeted a joint US-Iraqi military patrol on a road nearby Nasser town west of Kirkuk.A similar attack took place on a road between Riyadh and Baiji, wounding six Iraqi soldiers, including one officer. Another bomb went off late Tuesday night, wounding five oil facility guards in southern Kirkuk.
Meanwhile, a sound bomb went off outside a store on a road leading to Baghdad in Kirkuk, wounding one of the workers in the store. The police source said another timed bomb exploded nearby the residence of Chief of Police Rahim Awah, but no property or life losses were recorded in the attack. Meanwhile, a Katyusha rocket landed in a vacant area nearby the Kirkuk Police Academy in southern Kirkuk. No property damages were recorded in the blast. In a separate incident, unknown gunmen opened fire on Iraqi citizen Arfan Ali Rostom while in his store in Kirkuk, killing him instantly.