4 cops wounded by IED in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Four policemen were wounded on Thursday in an improvised explosive device blast in southern Kirkuk, a senior security official said. “An explosive device went off on Thursday morning (Oct. 15) targeting an emergency police vehicle patrol near a vegetable market in southern Kirkuk , injuring four policemen and damaging their car,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the Kirkuk Districts’ Police Department (KDPD), told IraqiNews.com news agency. “They were sent to the Kirkuk public hospital for treatment,” he added. The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen population, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SH (P) 1