Four people injured, 20 cars set ablaze in Kirkuk’s Zab town

KIKurdistan RegionUK / IraqiNews.com: Four persons have been injured and 20 cars were set ablaze in three explosions in Zab town, southwest of northern Iraq‘s oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Sunday night, a Kirkuk Police director said. “Three consecutive explosions took place, at 10 pm local time Sunday night, in Zab town, some 85 km to the southwest of Kirkuk, one inside a car show, the second close to the residence of al-Sahwa (Awakening) commander and the third inside the town’s main market,” Brigadier Sarhad Qader told IraqiNews.com news agency. He said that the result of the explosions had been 4 civilians injured and 20 cars set ablaze inside the car show, along with material damage to the house of the Sahwa commander and some marketing shops in the town. “Preliminary investigations have shown that the first blast inside the car show, belonging to Haj Tahsin Najim, had been caused by a Katusha rocket that fell on the car show, whilst the causes of the other explosions were not known till late Sunday night,” the Police officer said, giving no further details. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk, home for Arabs, Kurds, Turkomen and Christian Assyrians, is 280 km to the northeast of Baghdad. SKH (TP)/SR 581