3 policemen wounded in grenade blast in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Three policemen were wounded when gunmen hurled a hand-grenade at their patrol in southern Kirkuk city on Friday, according to a senior security official. “Unidentified gunmen threw a hand-grenade at a police patrol under the 4th Bridge in southern Kirkuk, leaving three patrolmen wounded,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the director of the Kirkuk Districts Police Department (KDPD), told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The incident is the third of its kind in Kirkuk on Friday,” he said. Qader elaborated that a policeman was driving a vehicle in Nahrwan complex, al-Riad district, (45 km southwest of Kirkuk), when he came under gunmen fire, but the attack left no casualties. In another incident, an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to a vehicle parked outside the house of a personnel working for the al-Huweija Anti-Crime Department went off in al-Askari neighborhood, Huwaija, (65 km) southwest of Kirkuk. The blast did not leave any casualties either. The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Arab, Turkmen and Kurdish population, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 31