IRAQ: Car bomb kills two in Kirkuk

Record ID: 356270

  • Title: IRAQ: Car bomb kills two in Kirkuk
  • Date: 17th March 2011
  • Summary: KIRKUK, IRAQ (MARCH 16, 2011) (REUTERS) SECURITY FORCES AND FIREMEN NEAR WRECKAGE OF CARS AT BLAST SCENE PEOPLE NEAR WRECKED CAR WRECKAGE OF CAR BOMB/ PAN TO SECURITY FORCES AT SCENE SMOULDERING CARS AT SCENE SECURITY FORCES AT SCENE LITTERED BY DEBRIS CHARRED CAR DAMAGED CARS / FIRE ENGINE AND FIREMEN AT SCENE SECURITY FORCES AND FIREMEN EXAMINING WRECKAGE OF CAR/
  • Embargoed: 1st April 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq, Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA1OQG2DV165HRSDFT8ULOZPOCC
  • Story Text: A car bomb went off in the centre of the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Wednesday (March 16), killing two people and wounded 33 others, police and hospital sources said.
    They said that the car bomb exploded in front of Kirkuk's general hospital, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad.
    "A murderer, a criminal man detonated his car here. Why? Can God approve such an act?" said a man who was on his way into hospital to treat his sick child when the car went off.
    While violence in Iraq has declined sharply from the height of sectarian warfare in 2006-07, bombings still occur daily, and Sunni insurgents and Shi'ite militia stage lethal attacks.
    Six people were killed and 75 others wounded in three car bombs in the city early last month.
    Kirkuk sits on rich oil reserves and is one of the disputed territories at the centre of tensions between the Kurdistan Regional Government and Iraq's central government.
    Kurds want the city included in their semi-autonomous northern area while Baghdad also lays claim to the region.
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