Police officer dies of wounds from Kirkuk blast

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: An officer of the al-Riad district police station died of wounds he had sustained earlier when an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to his vehicle went off on Thursday, a security source in Kirkuk said. “An officer in the rank of major from the police station of al-Riad district, (45 km) southwest of Kirkuk, died on Thursday of his wounds,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The officer had been seriously wounded when the sticky IED went off inside his vehicle on March 10. The blast then had left the driver killed, the source added. He did not give further details. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk lies 250 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 1