Iraqi police say a car bomb exploded outside a house in the troubled
northern city of Kirkuk Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding at
least one.
Senior police officials say it appears the car
exploded prematurely inside the residential compound as it was being
prepared for a bomb attack. The family staying in the home had arrived
there only days before.
At least one building was flattened by the blast.
Kirkuk is a disputed, multi-ethnic region with vast oil reserves.
The government of northern Iraq's Kurdistan region and Baghdad are locked in a bitter feud about the area's land and oil.
Iraqi
police Tuesday said a roadside bomb killed a police chief, Maj. Zaid
Hussein Khalaf, and four of his officers near Kirkuk, in the town of
Armili. Another roadside bomb struck an Iraqi police patrol in the
nearby town of Daqouq that same day, killing two officers and wounding
two others.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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