One killed, 2 injured in Kirkuk blast

Iraqi civilian has been killed and two others were injured in an explosive charge blast west of northern Iraq''s oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Thursday, Kirkuk''s Police Director said. "A rocket was launched on the house of Police Officer, Colonel Imad Murshid in a village close to al-Riyadh township, 45 km to the southwest of Kirkuk, causing severe damage to the house, but no human casualties," Lt-Brigadier Sarhad Qader told (Aswat al-Iraq) news agency. He said that an explosive charge blew off against a police patrol, when an al-Riyadh police patrol arrived at the venue of the house attack, killing a civilian and wounding two others, but none of the police patrol men was injured. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk is 280 km to the northeast of Kirkuk.