KIRKUK: Twenty-six people people were killed and 56 wounded in a car bomb attack on a market area in Kirkuk on Tuesday, a high-ranking police official said while talking to a French news agency. The blast occurred around 6 pm (1500 GMT) in the central Shurga district, an interior ministry official said separately. The blast devastated the area, the news agency reporter at the scene added. Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, is plagued with intercommunal tensions among its 900,000-strong Kurdish, Turkmen and Arab population. Those tensions prevented the staging of provincial elections there on January 31, when the rest of Iraq except the three Kurdish provinces voted for new councils.
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