Kirkuk blast leaves 11 casualties, including students

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: The car bomb explosion that occurred earlier today near a school in southwestern Kirkuk city has left one dead and 10 others wounded, including students, according to a police chief. “The car was stolen and had a forged license plate,” the official told IraqiNews.com news agency. Earlier today, a police source said that a car rigged with explosives detonated near Raba al-Adawiya School in Tiseen neighborhood, leaving an unknown number of civilian casualties. Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SS (P)/SR 1