Cops wounded while defusing bomb

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two policemen on Tuesday were wounded while they were trying to defuse an explosive charge in downtown Toz Khormato district, south of Kirkuk city. “Today, police forces found an explosive charge in al-Falka area (90 km south of Kirkuk city),” a local police source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “Two police personnel were wounded when they tried to dismantle it,” the source added. Kirkuk, 250 km (156 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, sits on the ruins of a 5,000-year-old settlement. Because of the strategic geographical location of the city, Kirkuk was the battle ground for three empires, Assyria, Babylonia and Media which controlled the city at various times. SS (P) 1