Seven people killed as Islamic State attacks village, west of Kirkuk
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
bully boyz have carried out an attack, west of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
leaving seven people killed, the Baghdad Post website reported on Monday.
Several Islamic State members attacked al-Bu Shaher village, near Yayji town, west of Kirkuk, a security source was quoted saying.
The bully boyz left seven civilians killed and fled the village, the source added.
No further details were provided.
Two people wounded as bomb blast targets mayor’s house in Kirkuk
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) – An Iraqi security source said on Monday that two people were wounded in a bomb blast near a mayor’s house in central Kirkuk.
Speaking to Alforat News website, the source said that “a bomb placed outside a mayor’s house in a district in central Kirkuk went off Monday afternoon, leaving two people wounded.”
“The injured were moved to a nearby hospital for treatment and a probe was opened into the attack,” added the source.
Meanwhile, spokesman for the Iraqi Interior Ministry Maj. Gen. Saad Maan said that a man was arrested in Karbala governorate for pretending to be a policeman.
“The arrested was handed over to the competent judicial bodies for interrogation,” Maan noted.