Car bomb leaves casualties in Kirkuk

KIRKUK/ IraqiNews.com: A booby-trapped car on Tuesday went off in downtown Kirkuk city, leaving an unknown number of casualties, according to a police source. “The explosion occurred near the engineering faculty in al-Ghirnata neighborhood, central Kirkuk,” the source 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) 1