2 cops, civilian wounded in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two policemen and one civilian were wounded on Wednesday in two separate attacks in Kirkuk, a police source said. “A roadside bomb exploded on Wednesday evening (Oct. 6) targeting a police vehicle patrol in al-Touz, south of Mosul, injuring two policemen, who were carried to a nearby hospital for treatment,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. He did not give further details. Meanwhile, a Katyusha rocket hit a civilian car in Tesayeen region in central Kirkuk, wounding the car’s owner, the Kirkuk Districts Police Department (KDPD) said. “Security forces cordoned off the whole region and started an investigation into the incident,” Brigadier Sarhad Qader told IraqiNews.com news agency. Kirkuk is 250 km northeast of Baghdad. SH (P) 1