Kirkuk Asayesh director escapes attempt on life

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: The director of Kirkuk’s Asayesh forces and his assistant survived an assassination attempt when an explosive device targeted their motorcade in the center of the city, according to a media official. “Brig. Halo Najat Hamzah and his assistant Col. Salar Khaled escaped an assassination attempt when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near their motorcade near Baghdad parking lot, downtown Kirkuk,” Farhad Mohammed told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The attack caused damage to the vehicle,” Mohammed noted. Earlier today, a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb targeting an emergency police patrol vehicle near the engineering faculty in downtown Kirkuk city, killing 11 and wounding six others. Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad. SS (P) 1