Two persons killed in oil fires in Karkouk

Two persons were killed and fires erupted in oil pipelines in attacks that targeted on Friday evening oil installations for the North Oil company in northern Iraq, according to the company.

Two employees from the North Oil company were killed and other four were wounded in a truck explosion when the bus they were riding passed near Karkouk.

The director general of the North Oil company Adel Qazzaz said that the passengers of the bus were engineers and workers who were returning home after their workday.