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Kirkuk: Armed attack on PUK office, two
bodies found
8.7.2007 |
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July
8, 2007
Kirkuk, Kurdistan region border with (Iraq),
-- Unidentified gunmen attacked the premises of the
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Kirkuk on
Sunday morning, while police forces found two
unidentified corpses north of the city, a police
source said.
“Three gunmen attacked the premises of the Patriotic
Union of Kurdistan, chaired by President Jalal
Talabani, in Kirkuk and clashed with security
guards. The clashes ended with the death of an armed
man, while the others fled to an unknown place,” the
source from the joint operations room in the Kirkuk
police department said.
“The body was sent to the forensic medicine
department,” he added.
Meanwhile, a police source said that police forces
found this morning two unidentified bodies, one of
which had been hanged and the other bore signs of
gunshot wounds to the head and torture, in Domeez
region near al-Tareq company, north of Kirkuk. “The
were sent to the forensic medicine department,” he
added.
Kirkuk lies just south border of the Kurdistan
autonomous region, located 250 km northeast of
Baghdad.
VOI
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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.
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.
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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