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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/seven-dead-in-iraq-car-bomb-attacks.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Seven people have died in car bomb attacks in northern Iraq" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-seven-dead-in-iraq-car-bomb-attacks.jpg" alt="Seven people have died in car bomb attacks in northern Iraq"/></a></p>
<p>Car bombs have ripped through the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing seven and wounding up to 80 people in the heart of a region of long-simmering ethnic tensions.</p>
<p>The blasts struck outside the headquarters of the Kurdish intelligence forces known as the Asayish, on a highway and near a petrol station in southern Kirkuk, located 180 miles north of Baghdad.</p>
<p>Television news footage showed police cars with blaring sirens racing to the Asayish headquarters when a second explosion went off in the area, going off near a taxi and knocking people to the ground. The sounds of gunshots could be heard immediately after the 10am blast.</p>
<p>Police spokesman Sarhat Qadir said seven were killed and up to 80 wounded in the explosions. He said the bomb along the highway targeted a police patrol led by a top commander, Colonel Ahmed Shamerani, but he was not hurt in the blast.</p>
<p>Dr Khalid Ahmed of Kirkuk emergency hospital confirmed the casualty count.</p>
<p>Kirkuk is the epicentre of ethnic tensions among Arabs, Kurds and Turkomen. The city also sits on top of one-third of Iraq&#8217;s estimated 11 trillion US dollars in oil reserves, and Arabs fear the Kurds want to annex Kirkuk to their northern autonomous region.</p>
<p>The regional tensions have stalled a long-awaited national census that would determine the real numbers of the country&#8217;s religious and ethnic groups. But the count also could inflame the larger dispute over territory and oil between Iraq&#8217;s central government and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north.</p>
<p>Earlier, two minor bombings that appeared to target police wounded six people in the Iraqi capital.</p>
<p>The first blast wounded four outside the al-Ansar mosque in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City as a police patrol passed by. A few minutes later, the second bomb exploded on the nearby Mohammed al-Qasim highway. Officials said two policemen who were on patrol were hurt.</p>
<p>Violence across Iraq has dropped dramatically from just a few years ago, but bombings and shootings still occur almost every day.</p>
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