The blast took place south-west of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, according to security officials, with two others officers critically wounded.
abc.net.au/news/iraq-bomb-police-officers-killed-convoy/101786382At least eight Iraqi federal police officers have been killed by a bomb that struck their convoy south-west of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, two security sources say.No-one has claimed responsibility but Islamic State has been active in the areaThe blast took place near the village of Safra, which lies about 30 kilometres south-west of Kirkuk, according to officials.
Iraq declared victory over the group — which once held large swathes of the country — in December 2017. Kirkuk, 238 kilometres north of Baghdad, was taken back from Kurdish forces by the Iraqi military that same year. The Kurdish Regional Government had controlled the city of 1 million people after Iraqi forces had departed the city following the rise of the Islamic State group.
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