At least nine federal police officers were martyred, yesterday, in a bombing in north-central Iraq near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, security officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bomb struck the policemen\u2019s convoy near the village of Safra, about 30km (20 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, with two other officers critically injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A federal police officer told the AFP news agency that \u201ca direct attack with small arms\u201d followed the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ISIS said on its Telegram channel that it had carried out the attack, media outlets reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At least nine federal police officers were martyred, yesterday, in a bombing in north-central Iraq near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, security officials said. The bomb struck the policemen\u2019s convoy near the village of Safra, about 30km (20 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, with two other officers critically injured. A federal police officer told the AFP …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":88767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1494,33,190],"class_list":["post-88766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iraq","tag-blast","tag-iraq","tag-kirkuk"],"yoast_head":"\n