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Car bomb kills at least 8 in Iraq's Kirkuk 19.10.2006
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KIRKUK,
Kurdistan-Iraq, October 19,-- A car bomb in the
Kurdish (northern Iraqi) city of Kirkuk killed at
least eight people and wounded 70 more in a crowded
market area on Thursday, police said.
They said the blast targeted a patrol of the Iraqi
Army as soldiers were collecting salaries from a
bank in the market area crowded with auto-parts and
tyre stores.
The oil-rich city of Kirkuk has witnessed a spate of
attacks in recent months amid tensions between the
Kurdish and Sunni Arab populations.
On Sunday, four car bombs, three of them driven by
suicide attackers, killed at least seven people in
Kirkuk. One of the blasts went off near an Iraqi
security force, which is also near a school for
girls.
Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, is disputed by Sunni
Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen. Its final status is one of
Iraq's most sensitive issues.
Reuters
The former Iraqi president forced about 250,000
Kurdish residents to give up their homes to Arabs in
the 1970s, to "Arabize" the city and the region's
oil industry.
Kirkuk city is not under the full control of
Kurdistan Regional Government administration. A
referendum in 2007 will decide whether the oil-rich
Kurdish province should be annexed to the safe
semiautonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq's north.
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