Targeted bombings massacre Kirkuk security forces
Restive disputed territory explodes with violence as a trio of bombings target security forces, killing at least 27.
A policeman inspects the site of Thursday's bomb attack in Kirkuk. (Reuters)
KIRKUK - A seemingly coordinated trio of bombings targeted security forces and killed at least 27 people Thursday morning in Kirkuk, the center of Iraq’s northern oil sector.
Among the dead were nine members of the Asayish, the Kurdish intelligence agency, and five police officers, including a top aide to Maj. Gen. Jamal Taher, Kirkuk's police chief, according to a Kirkuk police officer. At least 90 were wounded.
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