About nine police officers have reportedly been killed in a bomb and gun attack in northern Iraq.
The attack was said to have taken place near the city of Kirkuk, a few kilometers from the country’s capital city, Baghdad, on Sunday.
Although no group has claimed credit for the attack, officials have blamed the Islamic State group for masterminding it.
A similar bomb attack killed three Iraqi soldiers near Baghdad, on Wednesday and the Islamic State said it planted the bomb.
The attack on Sunday began when a bomb blast targeted a truck with police officers in it, near the village of Chalal al-Matar, officials told AFP.
Officials said the blast was followed by a “direct attack with small arms.”
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“An assailant has been killed and we are looking for the others,” the official added, saying that two policemen were also wounded in the attack.