2 bodies found, IED defused in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Policemen in Kirkuk found two decomposed bodies in a farmland and defused an improvised explosive device without incident southwest of the city, a security source said. “Two decayed bodies were found on Monday evening in a farmland near the village of Murata al-Kabir, al-Multaqa district, (30 km) southwest of Kirkuk,” the source told IraqiNews.com, adding the corpses were identified and buried by their relatives. In al-Abbasi district, 80 km southwest of Kirkuk, Iraqi policemen and Multi-National Force (MNF) troops defused an IED without incident. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 1