By Xinhua
Baghdad : At least seven people have been killed and some 40 others injured in a car bomb attack at a popular marketplace in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk, a municipal police chief said Friday.
“A car bomb ripped though the Hurriyah vegetable market in Kirkuk City at about 12 noon killing at least seven people and wounding 40 others,” Brigadier Burhan Wasif, police chief of Kirkuk city told Xinhua by telephone.
The blast damaged several civilian cars and nearby shops, he added.
Ambulances and rescue workers rushed to the scene to ferry the wounded to hospitals, he said.
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