Baghdad - A Kurdish police officer was killed Thursday and six members of the Kurdish security forces were wounded in an explosion in the city of Kirkuk, some 250 kilometres north of Baghdad, media reports said. The Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency said that a vehicle bomb targeted a Kurdish patrol in Kirkuk's Qods street.
The blast killed a police officer and wounded six members of the Kurdish forces.
In other news, medical sources told VOI that Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital had admitted 20 Iraqi troops seriously injured during clashes in the city of Basra, some 550 kilometres south of the Iraqi capital.
The wounded were moved from Basra to Baghdad's airport for treatment, VOI said.
Basra has been witnessing heavy fighting between Iraqi forces and the Shiite militia Mahdi Army since Monday.
The ongoing clashes left 40 people dead and 200 wounded on Wednesday.
