Attacks in northern Iraq kill 2, injure 25 others

An Iraqi police commander says three separate attacks in a volatile northern city have killed two civilians and injured 25 others. Conflicting reports state that a total of 8 people have been killed so far with over 50 injured, according to AFP.
 
Kirkuk police commander Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadir says insurgents attacked the house of a military officer early Thursday morning by planting four bombs around it, killing one and injuring six others from his family. The officer escaped unharmed.
 
A bomb in a parked car went off near restaurants a few hours later, Qadir added, killing one and wounding 15. Another parked car bomb targeting a police patrol followed, injuring two policemen and two civilian bystanders.
 
Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, is home to a combustible mix of Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Turkomen who all claim rights to the city and the oil-rich lands around it.

This as PKK rebels declared that Turkish warplanes launched raids which targetted four areas inside the Iraqi territory on the border with Turkey mid-Wednesday night.  

A spokesman for the Party, Haval Rose,  confirmed that  Turkish warplanes launched air strikes against the village of Laagi of the Rania district in Sulaimaniya, on the Iraqi border triangle border with Iran and Turkey, and areas close to Erbil.

AP/LBCI