IRAQ: A car bomb kills three people, including two policemen, in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk

Record ID: 357550

  • Title: IRAQ: A car bomb kills three people, including two policemen, in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk
  • Date: 11th October 2012
  • Summary: KIRKUK, IRAQ (OCTOBER 10, 2012) (REUTERS) GARBAGE TRUCK AT SCENE OF BLAST, BUS DRIVING PAST WRECKAGE ON STREET AND STREET CLEANERS IN NEARBY TRUCK PEOPLE STANDING NEAR WRECKAGE OF CAR MEN LOOKING AT WRECKAGE OF CAR VARIOUS OF STREET CLEANERS SWEEPING STREET MAN LOADING PIECES OF CAR WRECKAGE INTO TRUCK PILE OF WRECKAGE IN TRUCK, PIECES OF WRECKAGE BEING THROWN IN P
  • Embargoed: 26th October 2012 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVAA8G4FDE9P8U1ABJMTFAW52RR7
  • Story Text: Three people including two policemen were killed when a car bomb went off in Iraq's ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk late on Tuesday (October 9). Eight people including one policeman were also wounded in the attack.
    A number of facades of nearby shops were damaged in the blast.
    Violence in Iraq has eased since its height in 2006 and 2007 when sectarian fighting killed thousands of people, but Sunni Islamists and an al Qaeda affiliate still launch regular attacks, seeking to undermine the Shi'ite-led government.
    According to government figures released on Monday the death toll from militant attacks across Iraq doubled in September to 365, the highest toll for more than two years, with most of them killed in bomb attacks.
    Insurgents have launched one major assault a month since U.S. troops withdrew in December.
    The bloodiest day of the last month was September 9, when more than 100 people were killed in bomb and gun attacks across Iraq. The co-ordinated assaults against mostly Shi'ite Muslim targets were claimed to be perpetrated by the Iraqi affiliate of the Sunni Muslim al Qaeda.
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