URGENT: Ten Army men injured by mortar shell in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Ten Iraqi army men, including two officers, have been injured in a mortar shell attack on a checkpoint in northern Iraq ’s oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, a Kirkuk security source said.   “A motar shell fell on a checkpoint, belonging to the Iraqi Army’s 15 th Division, in Al-Rashad village, 35 km to the southwest of Kirkuk , wounding 8 soldiers and 2 officers,” he said.   He said that some of the injured soldiers “are in a very critical condition and were driven to a nearby hospital for treatment, whilst the security forces began an inspection campaign, looking for the place, where the mortar shell was launched from.”   Kirkuk is 280 km to the northeast of Baghdad .   SKH (ST)     739