Kirkuk police chief badly wounded by Iraq car bomb

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KIRKUK, July 24 (AFP): A car bomb in Iraq's ethnically divided northern oil hub of Kirkuk seriously wounded its police chief and killed his son Friday, a police officer said.
The blast, which struck at around 1:45 pm (1045 GMT) in the city, 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad, also wounded another policeman and eight passersby.
"Kirkuk police chief Borhan Habib Tayeb was seriously wounded and his son, Lieutenant Wissam Borhan Habib, was killed ... by a car bomb targeting their convoy in the south of the city," police Colonel Ghazi Mohammed Saleh said.
Kirkuk has a mixed population of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen. Longstanding Kurdish demands for the city to be incorporated into their autonomous region have fanned ethnic tensions.