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/ 11 December 2008
At least 45 people were killed and 93 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a restaurant near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday.
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of mourners in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 50 people, a police officer said. The man detonated an explosives vest in the crowd in the Sunni Arab village of Bu Mohammed, 120km south of the oil city of Kirkuk, at about 11am local time, Captain Abdullah Jassim said.
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/ 18 December 2007
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a visit overshadowed by a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, called on Iraqi leaders on Tuesday to urgently implement a national reconciliation roadmap. Turkish troops crossed overnight into the Iraqi Kurdish province of Dahuk, about 200km from the city of Kirkuk, where Rice’s plane first touched down.
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/ 12 October 2007
A bomb killed a child and wounded 13 others in a playground as they celebrated the Islamic festival of Eid on Friday in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmato, police said. Police Colonel Abbas Mohammed said a would-be suicide bomber hid the explosives in a cart he was pushing that was filled with children’s toys.
A suicide bomber killed 12 people and wounded around 150 in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Monday in the latest attack by insurgents using explosives-laden trucks. Insurgents have hit a string of northern towns in the past 10 days in bombings that have killed hundreds of people.
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/ 1 November 2006
I will never complain about a bad cellphone signal again. It saved my life this week. A suicide bomber had just walked past me and blew himself up in an Iraqi police station moments after I ducked round a corner to try for a better connection to the Reuters bureau in Baghdad.
Lieutenant Arjuman of the Kirkuk police lay unconscious in the recovery room after a successful operation to remove an insurgent’s bullet from his chest. Al-Jumhuriya hospital was quiet. At 10.30pm, a doctor moved along the corridor on the second floor and entered the recovery room. He leaned across the bed and turned off the oxygen supply. Half an hour later, Arjuman was dead.
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/ 22 November 2005
Fifteen people were killed and 25 wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a marketplace in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. Police rushed to the market after a small bomb exploded there. A suicide bomber then drove in at speed, ramming a police car with his vehicle and setting off a large explosion.
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/ 17 November 2005
Northern Iraq’s oilfields are a prime target for rebels looking to disrupt the country’s economy, but now local authorities have come up with innovative ways of getting the vital liquid flowing. Oil installations and pipelines around the northern hub of Kirkuk have been targeted by at least 290 acts of sabotage since Saddam Hussein fell in April 2003.
A suicide bomber struck outside a bank as elderly men and women waited to cash their pension checks, killing 23 people and wounding nearly 100 in the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk. Elsewhere, five Iraqi soldiers were killed and two wounded in a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in Kan’an, 50km north of Baghdad.
Bomb attacks in northern Iraq killed at least 30 people and wounded 88 on Tuesday, as the Kurdish autonomous region installed former rebel leader Massoud Barzani as its first president. The deadliest attack killed at least 20 people in a crowd of civil servants outside a bank in the northern oil city of Kirkuk.
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/ 23 November 2003
Three Iraqis and four Americans were wounded in an explosion on Saturday at a heavily protected building belonging to the state-owned Northern Oil Company in Kirkuk, police and security officials said. A spokesperson said there had been an explosion but doubted it was caused by a rocket attack.
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/ 4 September 2003
Kurdish security forces on Thursday foiled a major bomb plot with 1,2 tonnes of explosives hidden in three rubbish skips, including one left on a key bridge of northern Iraq oil centre Kirkuk. The discovery added new urgency to United States efforts to boost security forces to counter what officials call a growing terrorist threat.