Civilian wounded in Kirkuk blast

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: One civilian on Monday was injured in a thermal device blast in Kirkuk, according to a local source. “This morning, a thermal device detonated in al-Wassiti area (southwestern Kirkuk) while an emergency police patrol was passing the location,” a source from the Joint Coordination Center in the province told IraqiNews.com news agency. One civilian was slightly wounded in the blast, the source noted. Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SS (P) 1