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10 civilians injured in four blasts in
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February 6, 2007
KIRKUK, Iraq-Kurdistan region border, -- Ten
civilians were injured in four explosive devices in
several areas in Kirkuk, said an official Iraqi
security source on Tuesday.
"An explosive device went off near the house of a
policeman in al-Aaskari neighborhood, wounding his
mother and causing severe damage in the house," the
source, who asked not to be named, said.
Ten minutes later three explosive charges blew up in
the area of al-Urouba, 7 km north of the city, near
civilian houses, wounding nine people who were all
rushed to hospital for treatment., the source said
Two unidentified bodies were found in northern and
southern Kirkuk on Monday, a source in the Iraqi
police said.
"Iraqi police patrols found two unidentified bodies,
one near the industrial zone in south Kirkuk and the
other near the main road in Jiman in north Kirkuk,"
the source, who declined to be named, said on
Monday.
The source noted that the two bodies showed signs of
having been tortured and were taken to the forensic
medicine in a hospital in Kirkuk.
The former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein 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 a Kurdistani city and it lies just
south border of the Kurdistan autonomous region and
it is not under the full control of Kurdistan
Regional Government administration, its population
is a mix of majority Kurds and minority of Arabs,
Turkmen.
Based on Iraq's Constitution a referendum is to be
held in late 2007 to decide whether the oil-rich
Kurdish province should be
annexed to the safe semiautonomous Kurdistan region
in Iraq's north.
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