2 soldiers wounded in Kirkuk blast

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two soldiers were wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack that targeted their patrol southwest of Kirkuk on Thursday, a source from the city’s Joint Coordination Center (JCC) said. “An IED went off near an Iraqi army patrol not very far from al-Rifaiya village, al-Rashad district, (35 km) southwest of Kirkuk, leaving two servicemen wounded and causing severe damage to their vehicle,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The wounded were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment,” he said, adding the incident is being investigated. The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen population, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 3