Two North Iraq’s Oil Company injured in Kirkuk IED blast

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two employees of North Iraq’s Oil Company in Kirkuk have been injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast on Tuesday, a Kirkuk police director said.   “An IED blew off under a vehicle of two employees of the North Oil Company in Kirkuk in Riyadh Township , 45 km to the southwest of Kirkuk , seriously wounding both men and causing serious damage to their vehicle,” Brigadier Sarhad Qader told IraqiNews.com news agency.   In another development, Qader said that his security forces have detained two demanded men, according to the Iraqi Law’s Article 4 – Terrorism, confiscating their 2 motorbikes.   Kirkuk is 280 km to the northeast of Baghdad .   SKH (ST)