Three Iraq police killed in bomb blast at colleague's funeral

KIRKUK, Iraq - Three Iraqi police were killed and seven wounded in a bomb blast in the tense northern oil centre of Kirkuk Saturday as they buried a colleague killed the previous day, the city's police chief said.
"Around 10:30 (0730 GMT), three policemen were killed and seven others wounded by a bomb in the center of Kirkuk as the funeral cortege of a colleague killed the day before passed by," said General Turhan Yussef.

03/19/2005 08:32 GMT