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| Iraq |
| Five killed, 30 wounded in Kirkuk bombing |
| 2009-08-07 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] An explosive-laden vehicle has been detonated at a crowded market in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing five people and leaving 30 others wounded. The bomb went off at around 8:20 p.m. (1720 GMT) on Thursday, said a local security chief Nozad al-Barzanji. The incident took place in a Kurdish neighborhood of the ethnically mixed city, 255 kilometers (160 miles) north of Baghdad. Kirkuk, Iraq's oil producing hub, is the center of a dispute between Iraq's ethnic Kurds, who consider it their ancestral homeland, and the Arabs and Turkmen. The Kurds want to fold the city into their largely autonomous enclave of Kurdistan in northern Iraq. Meanwhile, a roadside bomb ripped through a car carrying Shia pilgrims as it drove through the mainly Sunni Arab neighborhood in south Baghdad, killing one pilgrim and wounding three, an interior ministry official said. The pilgrims were on their way to the holy city of Karbala, 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Baghdad, AFP quoted the official as saying. |
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