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Iraq
Militants using bombs attacked two oil wells at oilfield close to Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk; ISIS claims it
2021-05-06
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Militants using bombs attacked two oil wells at an oilfield close to the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, killing at least one policeman and setting off fires, the oil ministry said.

Industry sources said the attack had not affected production. A statement from the oil ministry did not comment on production.

The statement said one of the fires, at Well 177 at the Bai Hassan oilfield, had been put out and emergency teams were working to halt a second at Well 183.

The hard boyz attacked a nearby security post during the assault, killing one policeman and wounding three others, security officials said.

One of the security officials said the attack on the post was meant to distract police and allow other hard boyz to plant the bombs.

The last attack on Bai Hassan oilfield, which was claimed by ISIS, was on April 17, when hard boyz used explosives to attack two oil wells without causing significant damage.
Rudaw adds:
The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) has grabbed credit for an attack on a Kirkuk oil field Wednesday morning. Iraq’s oil ministry reported an unspecified number of deaths and injuries as a result of the attack, which blew up two oil fields.

"Bay Hassan field in Kirkuk governorate was attacked by snuffies at dawn today, which resulted in the bombing of wells (183) and (177), and the killing and wounding of a number of security forces and energy police," reads a statement from the Iraqi oil ministry.

This is not the first time oil fields in Kirkuk come under attack. Two oil wells were bombed at the Khabbaz oilfield in December.
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