At least eight police killed in blast near Iraq’s Kirkuk | News

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Those killed near the north-central city were police officers, security sources told Reuters.

At least eight people have been killed in a bomb blast near Iraq’s north-central city of Kirkuk, security sources told Reuters news agency.

The sources said those killed were police officers.

Kirkuk, located 238 kilometers from Baghdad, was seized from Kurdish forces by Iraqi security forces in 2017.

The Kurdish Regional Government had taken control of the city after Iraqi forces fled amid the rise of ISIS (ISIL) in the country.

This is a developing story.