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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Ten Iraqi police killed in Kirkuk car bomb AFP - Thursday, April 16 KIRKUK, Iraq (AFP) - - Ten Iraqi policemen were killed and at least 22 wounded in a massive car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, with a senior officer immediately blaming the attack on Al-Qaeda. ADVERTISEMENT Major General Torhan Yousuf, deputy police chief of Kirkuk province, initially told AFP the bomber had chased the bus from behind, before starting to overtake it and then driving into its side, causing the explosion. But he later said that the bomb-laden car had been parked just before the bus passed and that the bomber then detonated its payload. "We were informed in the beginning that the explosion was caused by a suicide car bomber, but the probability now is that the car was parked just before the bus passed," Yousuf said, giving a toll of 10 killed and 22 wounded. "The terrorist who had been driving the car managed to run away and cause the explosion just as the bus was passing." The bomber struck as the policemen headed home from protecting an oil installation, causing an explosion of such force that the officers' vehicle rose off the ground, Yousuf said. "We think the attack bears the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda," he said. "We estimate the bomb contained 250 to 300 kilograms (550 and 660 pounds) of explosives." The casualties were members of the Oil Protection Force, a department of Iraq's police, and had been working for the state-owned North Oil Company. The deaths underscored Iraq's fragile security situation which has seen a spike in attacks in recent weeks that have killed dozens and wounded hundreds more. Kirkuk, which has a Kurdish majority but substantial Arab and Turkmen minorities, has been a source of at times deadly ethnic tension since Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was toppled in the 2003 US-led invasion. Saddam had placed Kirkuk outside the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, which has enjoyed wide-ranging autonomy since 1991. But Iraqi Kurds, many of whom see Kirkuk's oil wealth as vital to the future viability of their region, have called for the province to be part of their autonomous region. Half of the 31,000-strong oil protection force safeguard the nation's pipelines and the remainder provide security at refineries and gas stations across the country. Wednesday's attack was the worst in Kirkuk since December 11, when 55 people were killed and 95 wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a restaurant near the northern city, which is located 255 kilometres (160 miles) north of Baghdad. It also came four days after a suicide bomber dressed in military uniform infiltrated a gathering of US-allied Sunni fighters waiting to be paid, killing nine people and wounding dozens south of Baghdad. That attack near Hilla came at the end of a particularly deadly week in Iraq, where a series of bombings killed 70 people and wounded more than 300. The US military has played down talk of a rise in violence, as its soldiers prepare to withdraw from cities and major towns by June 30 and from the entire country by the end of 2011. But five US troops and three members of Iraq's security forces were killed last Friday in the deadliest attack on American troops in Iraq for more than a year when a suicide truck bomber struck a police compound in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, which is also located in the north of the country. Lieutenant General Lloyd Austin, the US army's second-highest ranking officer in Iraq, said in Baghdad on April 1 that recent "high-profile" attacks were not a signal that the security situation was worsening. Security has improved dramatically since 2007 when Iraqi and US forces launched offensives against Al-Qaeda militants with the help of local US-financed and trained Sahwa "Awakening" militias. But insurgents are still able to strike with deadly results. A total of 252 Iraqis were killed in violence in March, almost the same tally as the previous month but up from January, when 191 Iraqis died in unrest. 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