Car bomb attack on Iraqi general kills seven people

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Source: Reuters-AlterNet

KIRKUK, Iraq, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A car bomb targeting the traffic police chief in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed at least seven people and wounded 50 others on Thursday, police said.

Brigadier-General Salar Ahmed Amin was wounded in the attack on his convoy, police said. Some of the victims were motorists who had been queuing at a fuel station in a Kurdish area of Kirkuk, a volatile multi-ethnic city.

One police source said seven cars had been set ablaze and that three of the dead were Amin's bodyguards.

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