Kirkuk police investigate killing of 12 people

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: The chief of the Kirkuk police issued an order to form an investigative committee to investigate the killing of 12 persons in the province, expressing condemnation of the incident. “General Jamal Taher gave an order to form an investigative committee to examine this brutal crime which left 12 people dead,” a source from the Kirkuk operations command told IraqiNews.com. The commander of the province’s suburbs and districts police had said on Monday that police forces found 12 unknown corpses in a village in southern Kirkuk. “The corpses were found in Qara-Hassan village, 25 km south of Kirkuk city,” Brigadier Sarhad Qadir said. “The corpses were burnt, and bore signs of gunshots that were estimated to have been inflicted four days ago,” he said. Qadir also said that “policemen found today a weapons cache, which contains 200 mortar shells near Hussar village in Shuwan district in north of Kirkuk.” Kirkuk city, the capital of Kirkuk province, lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad.   SH (P)/SR     1