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Bomb kills two, injures three in northern Iraq
Jul 17, 2010, 10:33 GMT
Kirkuk, Iraq - Two people were killed and three injured in a car bomb blast in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Saturday, police said.
The bomb was attached to the car of a Kurdish family, according to a police source told the German Press Agency dpa. The explosion took place south of the city, which lies some 250 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad.
On Friday evening, the city's Kurdish forces foiled a car bomb attack and arrested three people. The vehicle contained around 20 kilograms of explosives, the Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported.
The oil-rich Kirkuk has long been the subject of a tense dispute between Kurds, many of whom hope to make the city the capital of a future state, and Arab and Turkman residents of the city, who view the city and other disputed territories as integral parts of Iraq.
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