Kirkuk car bomber arrested

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A police patrol on Thursday arrested a man who carried out a car bombing attack in al-Huweija district, southwest of Kirkuk, according to a source from the city’s Joint Coordination Center (JCC) on Thursday. “A patrol from Huweija police station arrested a man wanted in accordance with Article 4 of the law on terror inside his house in al-Yarmuk neighborhood, Huweija, (65 km) southwest of Kirkuk,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The detainee, a 29-year-old man who had detonated an explosive vehicle near al-Huweija Hospital on March 22, was captured and is now under investigative custody,” the source said, not giving more details. On March 22, a source from the Kirkuk Districts’ Police Department (KDPD) had told IraqiNews.com that a car bomb ripped through al-Qadissiya neighborhood, north of Huweija, leaving a policeman wounded. The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen population, lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad. AmR (P) 3