At least 2 killed, 19 injured in Iraq's triple car bombings
14:45, 9 February 2011
KIRKUK, Iraq. February 9. KAZINFORM At least two people were killed and 19 others injured, including a police chief, in the triple car bombings in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk on Wednesday morning, a local police chief said. Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
The coordinated car bomb attacks took place successively when two booby-trapped car struck police patrols in the city, some 250 km north of Baghdad, and a third hit a base of the local Kurdish security force in Kirkuk's southern neighborhood of al-Wasitti, Brigadier General Sarhat Abdul Qader told Xinhua.
"Our first report about the triple attacks said that a policeman and a civilian were killed and 19 others were wounded," Qader said. Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.xinhuanet.com for full version