14 wounded in Kirkuk blast

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: The final count of casualties from a car bomb in central Kirkuk on Sunday reached 14 wounded, including the director of the awqaf (endowments) in the province, according to a security source at the Kirkuk Public Hospital. “The casualties from an earlier car bomb attack that targeted the motorcade of Kirkuk Awqaf Director Mulla Mustafa Hussein,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “Hussein and four of his bodyguards are among the wounded,” he added. Earlier today (July 3), a security source told IraqiNews.com that a booby-trapped vehicle blast took place near the provincial administration building has left five civilians wounded in an initial count of casualties. The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen population, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 2