Civilian wounded in grenade attack on U.S. patrol in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A civilian man was wounded in a hand-grenade attack by gunmen targeting a U.S. patrol southwest of Kirkuk on Friday, according to a source from the city’s Joint Coordination Center (JCC). “Unidentified gunmen hurled a hand-grenade on a U.S. patrol in al-Askari neighborhood, al-Huweija district, (65 km) southwest of Kirkuk, wounding only a civilian man who happened to be near the blast scene,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The wounded man was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment,” he said, not giving further details. The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen population, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 3