Bomb blast leaves two people wounded in Iraq’s Kirkuk
Security men stand near a site of a car bomb blast in Baghdad
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – Two people were wounded Wednesday in a bomb blast in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk, a security source was quoted as saying.
“A bomb placed on the side of a road went off in al-Tayaran square in central Kirkuk, leaving two people injured,” privately-owned daily newspaper Al Arab Al Yawm quoted the source as saying.
“Security forces rushed to the blast site and carried the wounded into a nearby hospital for treatment,” added the source.
Violence in the country has surged further with the emergence of Islamic State extremist militants who proclaimed an “Islamic Caliphate” in Iraq and Syria in 2014.
The surge in violence between armed groups and government forces has resulted in over five million internally displaced persons across Iraq and left more than 11 million in need of humanitarian assistance, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
A report by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said that a total of 75 Iraqi civilians were killed and another 179 injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed conflict in Iraq in September.
Of the overall figures, 71 ordinary civilians were killed.
Baghdad came on top of the worst affected Governorate, with 101 civilian casualties (31 killed, 70 injured), followed by Anbar (15 killed and 37 injured) and Salahuddin (09 killed and 38 injured).