Two people injured by unknown armed men in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two people have been injured when a group of unknown armed men, wearing military uniform, opened fire on them in northern Iraq’s Kirkuk city on Wednesday night, a source in the Joint Coordination Center in Kirkuk said on Thursday. “Three unknown armed men, dressed in military uniform, opened fire from a vehicle late Wednesday night in Kirkuk‘s Shorja district. A police force found the two injured and drove them to a nearby hospital,” the source added. He said investigations indicated that one of the wounded men was an officer in Kurdistan Region, whilst the description of the vehicle that was used in the attack was distributed to all police centers and checkpoints in the city, without giving further details. Kirkuk is 250 km to the northeast of Baghdad. SKH (S)/SR 1