Car bomb explodes near school in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A car bomb on Wednesday went off in southwestern Kirkuk city, leaving an unknown number of casualties, according to a local police source. “A car rigged with explosives detonated near Raba al-Adawiya School in Tiseen neighborhood, leaving a number of civilian casualties,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SS (P) 1