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| Deadly Kirkuk blast 'a mistake' | Deadly Kirkuk blast 'a mistake' |
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| A car bomb that killed at least eight people - including a woman and child - in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk appears to have been a mistake, police say. | |
| A high-ranking police official said the car was parked in a courtyard of a house when the bomb went off. | A high-ranking police official said the car was parked in a courtyard of a house when the bomb went off. |
| He said it appeared the bomb had gone off prematurely as the car was being prepared for use in an attack. | He said it appeared the bomb had 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. | Police and locals removed bodies wrapped in bed sheets from the rubble, the agency reported. |
| Kirkuk police chief Brig Gen Jamal Tahir told AP news agency the vehicle had exploded outside a house, and suggested a bomb went off unexpectedly while it was being installed. | |
| An unnamed high-ranking officer made a similar claim, speaking to AFP news agency. | |
| The family renting the house, in the east of the city, only moved in a few days ago after moving from Diyala province, reports said. The house is said to be owned by a Sunni tribal leader. | |
| An investigation is under way. | |
| In other violence in Iraq, two people were killed in an operation by Iraqi and US forces in south-eastern Baghdad, the US military said. | |
| An Iraqi army officer was killed by a bomb in Mosul, reports said. | |
| Tug of war | 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. | 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. | 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. | The move is fiercely opposed by the city's Turkmen and Arab population. |
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