Roadside bomb attacks kill 1 in Iraq's Kirkuk

KIRKUK, Iraq

At least one person was killed and ten others injured in simultaneous roadside bomb attacks in Iraq’s Kirkuk city on Thursday.

Roadside bombs were detonated in Hazra and Ras al-Cisr neighborhoods as two passenger buses were passing, a statement released by Iraq’s Defense Ministry said.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks but Iraqi authorities typically blame such acts of violence on the Daesh terror group, which overran one-third of the country in mid-2014.

In 2017, the Iraq army, with the help of a U.S.-led military coalition, recovered most if not all of the territory lost to the notorious terror group.