Two policemen, two civilians – 22 others wounded in Kirkuk blasts.

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two policeman and two civilians have been killed, along with twenty-two others inured in three explosions in north Iraq’s oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, the City’s Police Director said. “Three booby-trapped cars blew off early in the day, the first parked close to the headquarters of the Assayish (Kurdish Security) on Kirkuk‘s main highway leading to Baghdad, whilst the second blew off close to Aqaba bin-Nafi’e filling station, and the the third close to the Disabled Office, killing 4 persons, including 2 policemen and wounding 22 others, including a number of Kirkuk police officers,” Lt. Brigadier Sarhad Qader told IraqiNews.com news agency. Qader said that “severe material losses were caused to a number of cars and buildings close to the venues of the three blasts.” A Kirkuk security source told IraqiNews.com early in the day that a booby-trapped car blew off close to the headquarters of the Kurdisan Democatic Party (KDP)’s Assayish (Security)’s headquarters in Kirkuk, another close to Aqaba bin-Nafi’e’s filling station and a third close to the Disabled Office southwest of the city, killing 2 persons and wounding 19 others. Kirkuk, the center of the province carrying the same name, is 250 kms to the northeast of Baghdad. PT / SKH 498