November 14, 2012 01:58 pm | Updated October 18, 2016 03:05 pm IST - Kirkuk, Iraq
Nine people were killed and 55 injured on Wednesday in a series of explosions in northern Iraq, police said.
The bombings in Kirkuk hit a group of construction workers, the offices of a Kurdish political party, and an army patrol.
The oil-producing region is at the centre of a long-running territorial dispute between Iraq’s Kurdish, Arab and Turkmen ethnic groups.
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