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Car bomb kills at least 14 Iraqis in Kirkuk (Roundup)
Apr 15, 2009, 17:04 GMT
Baghdad - At least 14 people were killed when a car bomb exploded in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, police said.
A man detonated explosives packed in his car as Iraqi security guards working for a petroleum company passed by, killing himself and at least 13 other people, police told German Press Agency dpa.
At least 23 people were wounded in the attack, which targeted a group of security guards for the Northern Oil Company as they were ending their shift for the day, police said.
In an apparently unrelated incident, Baghdad's Voices of Iraq news agency reported that US forces killed one armed man and arrested two others southwest of Kirkuk.
Police told the news agency that soldiers had caught the men trying to plant a bomb by the side of a road near the village of al-Hamira, 35 kilometres southwest of Kirkuk.
Kirkuk, with its rich oil reserves, is among the most ethnically diverse cities in Iraq, but is primarily divided between Kurds, many of whom hope to make the city the capital of an independent Kurdish state, and Sunni Arabs, many of whom moved to the city as part of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's attempts to 'Arabize' the city.
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