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| Car blast kills seven in Kirkuk | Car blast kills seven in Kirkuk |
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| A woman and child were among at least seven people killed when a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police have said. | A woman and child were among at least seven people killed when a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police have said. |
| A high-ranking police official said the car was parked in a courtyard of a house at the time the bomb went off. | A high-ranking police official said the car was parked in a courtyard of a house at the time the bomb went off. |
| He said it appeared the bomb may have gone off prematurely as the car was being prepared for use in an attack. | |
| At least one building collapsed completely in the blast, Reuters news agency reported. | At least one building collapsed completely in the blast, Reuters news agency reported. |
| Police and locals removed bodies wrapped in bed sheets from the rubble, the agency reported. | |
| Tug of war | |
| Kirkuk is an ethnically mixed city in the oil-rich north of the country. | Kirkuk is an ethnically mixed city in the oil-rich north of the country. |
| It has been the subject of a tug of war between the Arab-led government in Baghdad and the autonomous northern Kurdish region. | |
| Ethnic Kurds claim the northern city of Kirkuk and its resource-rich surrounds as their ancestral capital and want them to be incorporated into their enclave. | |
| The move is fiercely opposed by the city's Turkmen and Arab population. |