- Title: IRAQ: Car bomb attack on Iraqi general kills seven people
- Date: 12th October 2007
- Summary: (W3) KIRKUK, IRAQ (OCTOBER 11, 2007) (REUTERS) CROWD AT SCENE OF CAR BOMB BLAST/ CARS ON FIRE POLICEMEN AND CROWD AT SITE OF BLAST/ CARS ON FIRE AND FIRE TRUCKS IN THE BACKGROUND CAR ON FIRE/ PEOPLE PUTTING OUT FIRE WITH HOSE PIPE SMOULDERING WRECKAGE OF CAR VARIOUS OF CROWD AT SITE OF BLAST/ SMOKE RISING FROM BURNT OUT CARS SMOULDERING DEBRIS/ POLICEMEN AND PEOPLE MAN STA
- Embargoed: 27th October 2007 13:00
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- Location: Iraq
- Country: Iraq
- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
- Reuters ID: LVA3RDGSE5ILLV8HX3IQ6MWQ28BO
- Story Text: Police, firemen and passers-by try frantically to extinguish fires caused when a car bomb explodes in Kirkuk, killing at least seven people and wounding
The city's traffic police chief, who was the target of the bomb, was wounded in the attack and three of his bodyguards were killed.
A car bomb targeting the traffic police chief in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed at least seven people and wounded 50 others on Thursday (October 11), police said.
Brigadier-General Salar Ahmed Amin was wounded in the attack on his convoy, police said. Some of the victims were motorists who had been queuing at a fuel station in a Kurdish area of Kirkuk, a volatile multi-ethnic city.
One police source said seven cars had been set ablaze and that three of the dead were Amin's bodyguards.
The scene of the blast was close to a market crowded with shoppers buying food and presents in preparation for the Eid holiday that marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
The oil-producing city is shared by Kurds, Turkmen, Shi'ite and Sunni Arabs. Kurds want it to be incorporated into their largely autonomous Kurdistan region, but Arab residents want it to remain under the control of the Baghdad government. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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