Grenades in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A police patrol found a grenade in southern Kirkuk, while another one went off in a separate incident targeting the house of a civil servant in the city. “The police patrol found the grenade attached to the door of a citizen’s house in al-Mamdoda neighborhood, southern Kirkuk,” Colonel Shezad Mofri told IraqiNews.com news agency. He said that the grenade was defused without causing any damage. In a separate incident, a local security source said that gunmen used a grenade to attack a citizen’s house in Kirkuk. “The citizen works for the Transportation Ministry and his house is in a neighborhood near al-Safa mosque,” the source said. He said that the blast left damage to the house in addition to a nearby Chevrolet vehicle. The source did not mention further details. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad. MH (P) /SR 1