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Summary A parked car bomb explosion wounded 25 people in Iraq's northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
The blast tore through a market near Rahim Mawa, north of Kirkuk and 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, an area mainly inhabited by the Kurdish community.In the aftermath of the detonation on Saturday, local residents and workers began to clear shards of glass and broken property from the streets. While violence in Iraq has declined sharply from the height of sectarian warfare in 2006-07, bombings still occur daily, and Sunni insurgents and Shiite militia stage lethal attacks. Six people were killed and 75 others wounded in three car bombs in the city early last month.Kirkuk sits on rich oil reserves and is one of the disputed territories at the centre of tensions between the Kurdistan Regional Government and Iraqs central government. Kurds want the city included in their semi-autonomous northern area while Baghdad also lays claim to the region.
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