"At around 6:30 this evening in the village of Tuwelaa near al-Gharra Mountain in the Dubz district, an improvised bomb detonated on an Iraqi army military vehicle, resulting in the martyrdom of one lieutenant colonel and injuries to another lieutenant colonel and a soldier," Amer Nuri, spokesperson for Kirkuk police, told Rudaw.
The injured were transferred to a hospital in Kirkuk. The blast destroyed the vehicle.
The officer who was killed was named as Laith al-Hayali, intelligence director for the 8th Division of Kirkuk Operations Command.
Iraq’s defense ministry confirmed his death and vowed Dire Revenge on the "terrorists."
No group has grabbed credit, but 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) hard boyz are active in Kirkuk province.