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| 3 policemen wounded in grenade blast in Kirkuk |
| 2010-12-04 |
| KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Three policemen were wounded when gunmen hurled a hand-grenade at their patrol in southern Kirkuk city on Friday, according to a senior security official. “Unidentified gunmen threw a hand-grenade at a police patrol under the 4th Bridge in southern Kirkuk, leaving three patrolmen wounded,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the director of the Kirkuk Districts Police Department (KDPD), told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The incident is the third of its kind in Kirkuk on Friday,” he said. Qader elaborated that a policeman was driving a vehicle in Nahrwan complex, al-Riad district, (45 km southwest of Kirkuk), when he came under gunmen fire, but the attack left no casualties. In another incident, an improvised explosive device (IED) attached to a vehicle parked outside the house of a personnel working for the al-Huweija Anti-Crime Department went off in al-Askari neighborhood, Huwaija, (65 km) southwest of Kirkuk. The blast did not leave any casualties either. |
| Posted by:Steve White |