An Iraqi soldier was killed and three others wounded in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, when an explosive device blew up as a military convoy was passing by on Wednesday. A commander of the Iraqi Army told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the explosion had taken place on the Tikrit-Kirkuk road. Also in Kirkuk, a police source told KUNA that four employees of an oil company that had been kidnapped yesterday were released.And in Mosul, the US Army announced that it had dismantled a booby-trapped car that had been holding large quantities of missiles and ammunition. Furthermore, Iraqi police said a militant had been killed today when the explosive device he was attempting to set up by a Mosul road blew up.
In Najaf, Secretary General of the of the Mihrab Martyr Institute, Ammar Al-Hakim, escaped an assassination attempt. A statement issued by the institute said an explosive device had been planted in the wall of his neighbor's house, but did not say if Al-Hakim had been at home at the time of the explosion. The assassination target is son of the Chairman of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq Abdul-Aziz Al-Hakim.