[An Nahar] A car boom on Wednesday in the north Iraq city of Kirkuk went kaboom!as a judge's car was passing, wounding him and nine others and leaving two people dead, security and medical officials said.
The bomb went
kaboom!as Judge Aziz Abdullah of the Kirkuk criminal court was driving near the Kirkuk Palace hotel in the center of the city, police Brigadier General Sarhad Qader said.
Qader, who put the toll at two dead and a total of 10 maimed, said the judge was in a stable condition.
Dr. Mohammed Abdullah of Kirkuk General Hospital meanwhile put the toll at two dead and 12 maimed.
Details of those killed and others maimed in the attack were not immediately available.
The latest killings bring to at least 141 the number of people killed in attacks in Iraq since June 13 -- more than were killed in all of May, according to official figures.