Two persons killed in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two persons, including a Kurdish Asayish (security) man, have been killed by unknown gunmen in Tuz, to the south of Kirkuk on Friday, according to a Tuz police source. “Two armed men opened fire from a fast car on two persons riding a motorcycle, killing both men in Tuz township, 80 kms to the south of Kirkuk, and escaped to an unknown destination,” the police source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “Both victims were driven to a Tuz hospital, one of them a member of the Asayish (Kurdish security forces) in Tuz and the other, a civilian,” he said, without adding further details. In another incident, a Kirkuk Joint Coordination Center’s spokesman said that a rocket had been fired from the industrial district in Hawija, some 65 km to the southwest of Kirkuk, but its destination was not known. “Hawija police patrols headed towards the venue of the rocket’s launching pad, where a timing device and a battery were found, and they were removed without causing any damage,” he said. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk, is 280 km to the northeast of Baghdad. SKH/SR 29