Two killed, 20 wounded in car bomb attacks in Iraq's Kirkuk
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Two people were killed and 20 wounded Thursday in two car bomb attacks targeting police patrols in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk, a local police source said.
Two car bombs separately struck two police patrols in central Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad, killing a total of two people and wounding 20, including 16 policemen, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Iraqi security forces sealed off the scenes of the attacks as ambulances and civilian cars rushed the victims to the city hospitals, the source said.
The oil-rich Kirkuk province and its capital Kirkuk city are part of the disputed areas between the Kurds and both Arabs and Turkomans. The area has long been the hotbed of insurgency since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
The attacks in the city came as a wave of car bomb, roadside bomb and gunfire attacks in Baghdad, Salahudin and Diyala provinces on Thursday morning's rush hours, which killed a total of 35 people and wounded 134 others.
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