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Kirkuk mosque bombing kills child, wounds five others

A young boy was killed and five people wounded by a bomb blast at a mosque in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk late Saturday evening, a police official told Rudaw. “A bomb placed at the Safa mosque in the Yaki Hozairan neighborhood of Kirkuk killed a child and wounded five more people,” Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir, head of […]

Rudaw reports:

A young boy was killed and five people wounded by a bomb blast at a mosque in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk late Saturday evening, a police official told Rudaw.

“A bomb placed at the Safa mosque in the Yaki Hozairan neighborhood of Kirkuk killed a child and wounded five more people,” Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir, head of Kirkuk’s Suburban Police, told Rudaw.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.