Sticky IED wounds 2 in southern Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two persons on Saturday were wounded in an explosive device blast that occurred in southern Kirkuk district, a local security source said. “Two persons, including an Iraqi serviceman, were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) stuck to a soldier’s vehicle went off in Touz Khormato district (80 km south of Kirkuk city),” the source told IraqiNews.com. “The soldier was seriously wounded,” the source noted. Kirkuk, 250 km (156 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, sits on the ruins of a 5,000-year-old settlement. Because of the strategic geographical location of the city, Kirkuk was the battle ground for three empires, Assyria, Babylonia and Media which controlled the city at various times. SS (P) 1