At least 25 people, mostly policemen, were killed and 79 wounded Thursday, May 19, in a series of attacks against police in the multiethnic city of Kirkuk north of Baghdad, sources said. At least three attacks took place in just over an hour in the center of this town that is the subject of a dispute between the central government in Baghdad and Kurdish authorities who wish to incorporate into their autonomous region Kurdistan, said the security services.
"The blasts claimed 25 dead and 79 injured, mostly policemen," said director of health services in the province of Kirkuk, 240 km north of Baghdad. This assessment was confirmed by security sources. A previous assessment of the Kirkuk police had reported 18 dead. The first explosion caused by a magnetic bomb stuck to a vehicle occurred at around 9 am 20 am local time (8 h 20, Paris time) in a parking lot of the police headquarters.
It was followed minutes later by a car bomb exploded nearby, according to the commander Zangana. Many vehicles parked nearby were damaged, according to a journalist from the site. Around 10 h 30 local time (9 h 30, Paris time), a car bomb exploded in central Kirkuk, the convoy of the head of the Criminal Investigation Department of police, Colonel Mohamed Aras, who was injured, along with thirteen other people, an official security services.
Dozens of wounded were sent to Kirkuk General Hospital, quickly overwhelmed, noted journalist of which saw many uniformed officers waiting for care. Of police vehicles plying in the same time the streets of the city by calling in speaker population to go donate blood to help victims. These attacks occur in the wake of the announcement by the Iraqi authorities to arrest the alleged military leader of al-Qaida in Iraq during an army operation west of Samarra, a town 110 km north of Baghdad.
The province of Kirkuk is very rich in oil, is one of the most unstable Iraq because of ethnic tensions between its different communities. Insecurity will take the form of bombings, assassinations, kidnappings or even sometimes clashes between soldiers and Iraqi Kurdish security forces, as had two dead and four wounded on April 25.
As in most of the "disputed territories" between Baghdad and the Kurdistan region, the fight against armed groups in Kirkuk is complicated by the claims of the central government and Kurdish authorities in this strategic area. 
"The blasts claimed 25 dead and 79 injured, mostly policemen," said director of health services in the province of Kirkuk, 240 km north of Baghdad. This assessment was confirmed by security sources. A previous assessment of the Kirkuk police had reported 18 dead. The first explosion caused by a magnetic bomb stuck to a vehicle occurred at around 9 am 20 am local time (8 h 20, Paris time) in a parking lot of the police headquarters.
It was followed minutes later by a car bomb exploded nearby, according to the commander Zangana. Many vehicles parked nearby were damaged, according to a journalist from the site. Around 10 h 30 local time (9 h 30, Paris time), a car bomb exploded in central Kirkuk, the convoy of the head of the Criminal Investigation Department of police, Colonel Mohamed Aras, who was injured, along with thirteen other people, an official security services.
Dozens of wounded were sent to Kirkuk General Hospital, quickly overwhelmed, noted journalist of which saw many uniformed officers waiting for care. Of police vehicles plying in the same time the streets of the city by calling in speaker population to go donate blood to help victims. These attacks occur in the wake of the announcement by the Iraqi authorities to arrest the alleged military leader of al-Qaida in Iraq during an army operation west of Samarra, a town 110 km north of Baghdad.
The province of Kirkuk is very rich in oil, is one of the most unstable Iraq because of ethnic tensions between its different communities. Insecurity will take the form of bombings, assassinations, kidnappings or even sometimes clashes between soldiers and Iraqi Kurdish security forces, as had two dead and four wounded on April 25.
As in most of the "disputed territories" between Baghdad and the Kurdistan region, the fight against armed groups in Kirkuk is complicated by the claims of the central government and Kurdish authorities in this strategic area.
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