Daesh attacks prompt Kirkuk city curfew

KIRKUK, Iraq (AA) – A curfew was imposed early Friday on the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk after a number of Daesh attacks, security sources said.

The sources, who spoke anonymously to Anadolu Agency due to security concerns, said Daesh terrorists launched three car-bomb attacks in several neighborhoods of the city.

Two suspected Daesh suicide bombers also took control of a building formerly used as Kirkuk’s police directorate.

Kirkuk police chief Brigadier Adel Zein al-Abedin told Anadolu Agency the attacks were carried out by Daesh “sleeper cells” and had targeted many security buildings plus the provincial administrative headquarters.

Home to Arabs, Kurds and Turkmens, Kirkuk city is being secured by Peshmerga forces of the Kurdish Regional Government in northern Iraq.