Location Kirkuk, Iraq Start date June 30, 2009 People also search for 2008 Dujail bombing | Non-fatal injuries 136 Total number of deaths 40 Attack types Suicide attack, Car bomb | |
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The 2009 Kirkuk bombing was a suicide car bomb attack that occurred on June 30, 2009, in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk. The bombing killed 40 people and injured up to 100.
The bomb, which exploded in a crowded district came as U.S. troops were leaving major urban cities in Iraq.
A brigade from the Kurdish Peshmerga captured 250 kg of TNT shortly after the attack. The vehicle was transporting the explosives from Kirkuk to Sulaymaniyah
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