IRAQ: Car bomb kills at least 2 people in Kirkuk

Record ID: 356424

  • Title: IRAQ: Car bomb kills at least 2 people in Kirkuk
  • Date: 13th March 2009
  • Summary: MAN WITH HEAD BANDAGE SITTING ON HOSPITAL STRETCHER
  • Embargoed: 28th March 2009 12:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Domestic Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA6RJWPB0Y1GHWUVO7PRGJ6OE66
  • Story Text: Two people were killed and seven were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a police patrol in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad on Wednesday (March 11), police said.
    While violence has dropped sharply in Iraq since the height of the sectarian and insurgent killing unleashed by the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, insurgents still stage regular attacks.
    Earlier on Wednesday another car bomb near an Iraqi army patrol killed three soldiers and wounded 10 people, including two soldiers, in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Also in Mosul, police said, two policemen and one civilian were wounded when a militant threw a hand grenade at a police patrol in central Mosul, Reconciliation among rival political factions is proving even more difficult than combating insurgents. Different factions remain deeply suspicious of each other.
    Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shi'ite whose political fortunes were strengthened following local polls, has stepped up calls for reconciliation in the past few days.
    But many opponents see such calls as rhetoric and accuse Maliki's government of blocking steps to reincorporate thousands of former Baath party members, who were fired by U.S. authorities in 2003, back into the government.
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