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Kirkuk Police Chief Escapes Assassination Attempt |
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Saturday, 12 July 2008 21:43 |
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Kirkuk's emergency police chief on Saturday survived the second attempt on his life in two months when an explosive charge targeted his motorcade in southwestern Kirkuk city, a security source said.
"Today an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in Hay al-Tiseen area, southwestern Kirkuk, targeting a vehicle carrying Colonel Ahmed Shamirani, wounding him along with a lieutenant colonel, who was in his company," the source, who preferred to remain unnamed, told Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq- (VOI).
"The explosion killed a woman and wounded another, who were close to the scene at the time of the attack," the source noted.
On April 30, Shamirani survived a similar assassination attempt when an explosive device targeted his vehicle near the old building of Kirkuk Police Academy and al-Asdiqaa gas station in al-Wassit neighborhood, southwestern Kirkuk. The blast wounded four civilians.
Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians, and Arabs, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
HEYET Net- VOI
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