Missile defused in southern Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Police forces on Friday managed to defuse a missile in southern Kirkuk, the deputy chief of the al-Muqdad police said. “Policemen found on Friday morning (March 6) a missile and its pad near the games city in al-Kournish street in southern Kirkuk,” Colonel Kamel Ahmad told IraqiNews.com news agency, noting that the missile was defused by anti-explosives experts. “The missile was targeting the airbase in Kirkuk,” he explained. Kirkuk is 250 km northeast of Baghdad. SH (P) 1