Booby trap wounds 13 in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Thirteen persons, including six police personnel, were wounded in a car bomb blast that hit Kirkuk city today, according to a local police chief. “This afternoon, a car rigged with explosives went off in al-Wassiti neighborhood, near al-Asdiqaa gas station, southwestern Kirkuk, injuring six policemen and seven civilians according to an initial count,” Col. Ahmed Shamirani told IraqiNews.com news agency. Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SS (P)/SR 1