IRAQ: Car bomb kills at least 25 people in Kirkuk

Record ID: 357029

  • Title: IRAQ: Car bomb kills at least 25 people in Kirkuk
  • Date: 1st July 2009
  • Summary: KIRKUK, IRAQ (JUNE 30, 2009) (REUTERS) EMERGENCY SERVICES AT SCENE OF BOMB BLAST FIRE BURNING DAMAGED MARKET STALLS/ MEN TRYING TO CLEAR WRECKAGE FIRE ENGINE, MEN CLEARING WRECKAGE FRUIT ON STALL COVERED WITH DUST MEN CLEARING WRECKAGE SMOKE RISING FROM DESTROYED VEHICLE MEN TRYING TO DOUSE FLAMES ON SMOULDERING VEHICLE IRAQI SOLDIER AT SCENE/ MEN CLEARING METAL P
  • Embargoed: 16th July 2009 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
  • Reuters ID: LVADLQ72JMO3PY39Y0HGC15WBXV4
  • Story Text: A car bomb in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed at least 25 people on Tuesday (June 30), just after U.S. troops handed over full control of Iraq's cities to the domestic security forces.
    The bomb, which wounded at least 40 people, struck a busy market in a largely Kurdish part of Kirkuk, a city viewed as a potential flashpoint between the Shi'ite Arab-led central government and Kurds. Police said the death toll could rise.
    Many Iraqis fear the U.S. pullback from towns and cities and into rural bases, the first step toward a full U.S. withdrawal by the end of 2011, leaves them open to attack.
    In another bloody reminder of the war unleashed by the 2003 U.S. invasion, the U.S. military said four U.S. soldiers based in Baghdad had died of combat-related injuries on Monday (June 29). It gave no further details.
    By midnight on Tuesday, all U.S. combat units must have left Iraq's urban centres and redeployed to rural bases, according to a bilateral security pact that requires all U.S. troops to leave Iraq by the end of 2011.
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