3 gunmen detained in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Three gunmen were arrested on Tuesday in two separate operations in southern Kirkuk, said the deputy director of the city’s Asayesh. “An Asayesh force on Tuesday arrested two gunmen in al-Askari neighborhood and a third one on the Baghdad road in southern Kirkuk,” Colonel Salar Khalid told IraqiNews.com news agency, pointing out that one of them is a security guard of Sadrist MP Fawzi Akram Tarzi. “The detainees were using mortar shells an guns in attacking U.S. forces in the city,” he also said, “They guided the forces to a weapons depot on the Baghdad road, which contains a number of mortar shells and guns,” he noted. Kirkuk is 250 km northeast of Baghdad. SH (P)/SR 1