Woman wounded in IED blast in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A woman was wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in central Kirkuk on Saturday, a source from the province’s security coordination center said. “The IED went off on al-Atibaa street, central Kirkuk , leaving one women who happened to be near the blast scene wounded,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The explosion also damaged several nearby stores,” he said, not giving further details. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad . AmR (P)/SR 1