Car bomb attack on internally displaced Turkmens in Iraq’s Kirkuk kills 6

A car bomb blast ripped through a Shiite mosque Thursday in the city of  Kirkuk where Turkmens  displaced by attacks on their towns and villages had found refuge, police and medics said. Among the victims of the blast, which killed at least six people and wounded 37, were women and children who had been forced from their homes in Amerli, Bashir and Taza, Dr Mohammed Abdallah from Kirkuk hospital said.