At least eight Iraqi policemen were killed Sunday in a possible attack by the Islamic State jihadist organization in southern Kirkuk province.
The eight members of the Iraqi Federal Police were hit by a homemade bomb planted by suspected jihadists in the town of Safra, security forces in the nearby town of Hawiya told the Kurdish-Iraqi agency Rudaw.
The bomb exploded as their convoy passed through this northern province of the country, the scene of some of the deadliest attacks by jihadist cells that remain scattered across Iraq following their territorial defeat in December 2017.
Two other police officers are wounded and their condition is critical. Sources of the Kurdish-Iraqi channel Kurdistan24 put the number of dead at nine, but there is still no official confirmation of this balance.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
