Student killed in explosion south of Kirkuk:

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A student has been killed in an explosion of a “strange device,” south of northern Iraq‘s oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Friday night, according to a source representing the Joint Coordination Center in Kirkuk on Saturday. “A strange device, belonging to the former Iraqi Army, blew off in Yaychi village, 20 kms southwest of Kirkuk, when a 21-year-old student had been digging in the area of blast on Friday night,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. He said that Yaychi’s police patrols headed to the venue of the blast, where they found the body of the dead student, that was driven to a nearby hospital, whilst investigation had began about the incident. Kirkuk is 250 kms to the northeast of Baghdad. 593