Two civilians injured in Kirkuk rocket attack

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two civilians have been injured in a rocket attack on their house, west of northern Iraq’s oil-rich city of Kirkuk, where unknown gunmen set fire to a school north of the city, a Kirkuk police officer said on Sunday. “A rocket hit a house in a west Kirkuk area, where displaced families returned back to their homes in the city on Saturday, wounding two persons and causing damage to their house,” Colonel Kamiran told IraqiNews.com news agency. In another incident, Kirkuk Police Director, Sarhad Qader, told IraqiNews.com that a group of unknown gunmen have set fire to an intermediate school in Altun-Kupri town, 35 km to the northeast of Kirkuk, causing damage to its administration and records. In another statement, the town’s Police Director, Col. Ali Ibrahim Darwish, said that the town’s civil defense force had managed to distinguish the fire, while the police arrested the school’s guard, who had left the school before the incident. Kirkuk is 280 km to the northeast of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. SKH (TI)/SR 639