Police official injured in Kirkuk explosion

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A police official on Monday was wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Kirkuk province, according to a local police chief. “This morning, an explosive charge went off in al-Riyad district (40 km southwest of Kirkuk) targeting the motorcade of the district’s police chief, who was on his way to work, wounding him alongside his driver,” Brig. Sarhad Qadir told IraqiNews.com news agency. The source did not provide further details. Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad. SS (P) 1