Wounded physician in Kirkuk was in ambulance

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: The physician who was wounded on Monday when a roadside bomb went off in southern Kirkuk city was driving to work in an ambulance, said a local security source. “The blast took place near the Vegetables Market, southern Kirkuk,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. He explained that the physician was driving to work in an ambulance to avoid gunmen attacks that might target him because of his work as a physician. Earlier, the same source said that a physician was wounded on Monday when a roadside bomb went off in southern Kirkuk city. “The physician works for the Daqouk Hospital, 35 km southern Kirkuk,” a local security source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad. MH (P)/SR 1