BAGHDAD: Several roadside bombs and mortar rounds wounded 11 people in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, witnesses said.
A police official said the bombs had targeted a commercial district of the city.
Security forces in Iraq have largely defeated Daesh militants, removing them from Mosul and other cities and towns.
But the hard-line Sunni militant group still carries out attacks near Kirkuk and some other parts of the country.
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Bombs wound 11 people in Iraqi city of Kirkuk
Bombs wound 11 people in Iraqi city of Kirkuk
- The cause of the blasts was not clear
Iraq hit by total blackout: ministry
- “The power grid has completely shut down across all Iraqi provinces,” the ministry said
- Work was underway to gradually restore power
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s electricity ministry said on Wednesday that the entire country had been affected by a blackout, later attributing it to a sudden drop in gas supplies to a key power plant.
“The power grid has completely shut down across all Iraqi provinces,” the ministry said, according to the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
It later announced that a “sudden drop in gas supplies to the Rumaila power plant” in the southern province of Basra led to a rapid loss of 1,900 megawatts, which triggered the outage.
It added that work was underway to gradually restore power.
Iraq has been impacted by the ongoing Middle East war and parts of the country have come under repeated attacks.
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