IED blast kills 2 Iraqi soldiers, wounds 4 in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and four others wounded in an improvised explosive device attack southwest of Kirkuk city on Tuesday, a senior security official said. “An IED went off near an Iraqi army patrol near the district of al-Rashad, (35 km) southwest of Kirkuk, leaving two soldiers of the Kirkuk 1st Contingent’s 47th Brigade killed and four others wounded,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the Kirkuk Districts’ Police Department (KDPD), told IraqiNews.com news agency. The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen population, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 1