IRAQ: Triple car bombs wound 17 people in Iraq's Kirkuk

Record ID: 356279

  • Title: IRAQ: Triple car bombs wound 17 people in Iraq's Kirkuk
  • Date: 7th November 2010
  • Summary: KIRKUK, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 6, 2010) (REUTERS): SMOKE RISING FROM BLAST SCENE MORE OF PLUME OF SMOKE RISING FROM BLAST SCENE
  • Embargoed: 22nd November 2010 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA4ZLG2S1UQPF330349O6HERF3X
  • Story Text: Three car bombs exploded in quick succession in three different areas in the ethnically mixed oil-rich city of Kirkuk early on Saturday (November 6), wounding 17 people, hospital and police sources in the city said.
    They said that car bombs targeted Kurdish areas in the centre of the city, some 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad.
    A number of houses and shops were heavily damaged and a number of civilian cars were wrecked by the blasts that took place simultaneously with one minute separating each blast from the other.
    "I heard a loud bang at six o'clock in the morning and I went out to find out and seconds later a second blast took place and I lost consciousness," said a wounded man from his hospital bed.
    Kirkuk is one of several flashpoints between Iraq's Arab-led government in Baghdad and minority Kurds that U.S. officials fear could lead to renewed conflict in Iraq.
    Kurds see the city and surrounding province, which cobers one of Iraq's oldest oilfields, as their ancestral home and want it wrapped into their semi-autonomous enclave. The city's Arab and Turkmen populations fiercely oppose those aims.
    The tensions between both sides are often exploited by insurgent groups trying to reignite the sectarian warfare that almost tore Iraq apart.
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