IRAQ: Car bomb kills six in market place in Kirkuk

Record ID: 356249

  • Title: IRAQ: Car bomb kills six in market place in Kirkuk
  • Date: 9th August 2007
  • Summary: (BN10) KIRKUK, IRAQ (AUGUST 10, 2007) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) SMOKE COMING OUT FROM DESTROYED BUILDING WITH PEOPLE GATHERING AROUND
  • Embargoed: 24th August 2007 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA29ITUAVQ6IT52NHV8L81K8BIK
  • Story Text: Police and firefighters frantically try to assist people injured when a car bomb exploded in a market in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday.
    At least 11 people were killed and another 45 were wounded in the attack.
    A car bomb killed 11 people and wounded 45 others near a market in a Kurdish district of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday, police said.
    Police said Friday's (August 10) attack in Kirkuk's southern al-Hurriya district destroyed several shops and damaged nearby homes.
    Doctors at the local hospital said many of the wounded were in a serious condition.
    Eighty-five people were killed by a suicide truck bomb on July 16 in the flashpoint oil-producing city, which is claimed by Kurds, Arabs and Turkish-speaking Turkmen.
    Kurds see Kirkuk as their historical capital and want it included in their autonomous Kurdistan region. They want the referendum held by year-end, as stated in the constitution, but a Western diplomat said last week he expected it to be delayed.
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