A car bomb wounded 20 people as it ripped through a Kurdish neighbourhood in the restive northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday, a police source said.
"A car bomb exploded in the Kurdish neighbourhood of Rahimawa near a security station in Kirkuk and 20 people were wounded," the source told AFP, without giving details.
Violence across Iraq has fallen dramatically since its peak in 2006 and 2007, but bomb attacks and kidnappings are still common.
A bomb explosion late on Tuesday on an Iraq-Turkey pipeline shut down exports from oil fields in Kirkuk, with officials saying operations would resume early next week.
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Weapons smuggled to Syria from Iraq seized: SANA
Damascus (AFP) March 11, 2011 –
Syrian security forces have seized weapons smuggled into the country from neighbouring Iraq aimed at "sowing trouble" in the country, the official SANA news agency reported on Friday.
The weapons were seized on Monday concealed in a refrigerated truck and the Iraqi driver of the vehicle was arrested, the agency said.
"Light and medium weapons, explosives, ammunition and night-vision goggles were concealed in several parts of the truck," which carried licence plates issued in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah, SANA said.
The driver of the truck said the owner of the vehicle loaded it with the weapons in Baghdad and had asked him to deliver them to someone in Damascus in exchange for $5,000.
"These weapons were to be used in operations aimed at undermining the national security, to sow trouble, anarchy and destabilise Syria," the agency said.
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