Fallujah shootout: Two suicide bombings, six explosions in Kirkuk

FALLUJAH, Iraq, Oct 2: A gunman was killed while two US soldiers and four Iraqi civilians were wounded on Thursday in a battle that erupted after a military patrol was ambushed in Fallujah, witnesses said.

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SUICIDE BOMBING: Two suicide bombers blew themselves up late Thursday outside a dry cleaners used by US troops in Kirkuk, an Iraqi civil defence official said, adding there were no US casualties.

The suicide bombings came after six explosions rocked Kirkuk, including a roadside blast that destroyed a US Humvee vehicle and wounded two American soldiers, according to a senior security source who asked not to be named.

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The US military said they had no report of any incident.

EXPLOSIONS: Six explosions rocked the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday evening, police Colonel Khattab Abdullah said, and an AFP correspondent reported that US warplanes hovered over the town after the blasts.

"At least six explosions caused by rocket propelled grenades and mortars" shook several parts of the city within 20 minutes, Abdullah said, adding that there were no immediate reports of casualties.



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