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Car Bomb Explodes in Kirkuk, Killing 17
24.7.2006
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Kirkuk, Kurdistan-Iraq, -- A car bomb exploded
at midday Sunday in a market in the northern oil
center of Kirkuk, killing at least 17 people and
wounding 30, police said.
It was the fourth car bombing this month in Kirkuk,
where tensions are rising among Arabs, Kurds and
Turkomen competing for control of the city, the
center of Iraq's vast northern oil industry.
On Thursday, a car bomb killed five people in Kirkuk.
A car bomb July 13 killed four people, including a
child.
Three days before, a suicide truck bomber attacked
an office of President Jalal Talabani's political
party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, killing
five people and wounding 12, police said.
Kirkuk city is not under the full control of
Kurdistan Regional Government administration. The
future of the area [of Kirkuk] will now be decided
directly by the local population in a referendum in
2007.
AP
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