(KUNA) -- An Iraqi policeman was killed and two others were wounded on Sunday in a booby-trapped car explosion in southeastern Kirkuk, northern Iraq. A police source told KUNA that the booby-trapped car had been driven by a suicide bomber on the Kirkuk-Tikrit road. Police had been conducting a search operation in the Rashad area and villages in the vicinity for suspects and had made several arrests.Meanwhile, police found the body of Salem Jomaa, the Iraqi civilian from Taza who had been kidnapped yesterday by an unknown group. The body had been decapitated.
Moreover, security sources told reporters that police found a booby-trapped tanker in the city of Irbil, northern Iraq, after having received a tip, adding that special forces were defusing the bombs in the tanker. Witnesses had reported that five militants had entered Shorsh Fire Station, where the tanker was located, and planted the bombs. Irbil had not witnessed any terrorist attacks since last year, but reports said that six booby-trapped cars had been planted there from Mosul.