Bomb defused in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Police patrols in Kirkuk defused a cannon shell tied to a hand-grenade south of the province on Friday, according to a source from the Joint Coordination Center (JCC). “Police patrol found a 155 mm. cannon shell tied to a hand-grenade by means of wires near Shaqaq Leilaln, (8 km) south of Kirkuk, based on a tip-off by a local resident in the area,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “Policemen and two civil defense and bomb squad experts dismantled the explosive after cordoning off the area without incident,” the source added. The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Turkmen, Kurdish and Arab population, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 2