Gunmen Kill Four Members of Army, Police in Kirkuk – Iraqi TV

Text of report by Iraqi Al-Sharqiyah TV on 14 July

The Iraqi Police have said that four Iraqi police and army members were killed and three others, including a woman, were wounded in two separate attacks in the Kirkuk Governorate, north of Baghdad, early this morning.

A colonel from Kirkuk Police said that unknown armed men opened fire today at a civilian car transporting policemen, adding that the attack resulted in the killing of three policemen and the wounding of two others in Kirkuk’s suburbs.

A similar attack on an Iraqi army patrol resulted in the killing of a soldier and wounding of a woman working at the citizenship department in Kirkuk. He said that the attackers escaped and that the police and army patrols were not able to arrest them, noting that the wounded were rushed to the city’s hospitals.