Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq 

    

Iraqis inspect the wreckage of a truck after a car bomb exploded in Kirkuk. At least nine people have been killed in a series of attacks across Iraq, including six police commandos shot dead near the northern town of Samarra.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

BAGHDAD, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Four car bombs, including a suicide one, went off in northern Iraqi city of on Saturday, killing at least two people and wounding 21 others, provincial police source told Xinhua.

    A suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden car near the offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in central Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad, police chief of Kirkuk province Brigadier Burhan Taha told Xinhua by telephone.

    At least two people were killed and 17 others wounded in the attack, Taha said.

    The KDP, whose head is president of the regional Kurdish government based in Arbil provinces, is one of the two major Kurdish parties dominated in Iraq after the U.S. invasion in 2003.

    According to Taha, the second car bomb that went off in the al-Khadraa neighborhood and the third one detonated in Domiez neighborhood wounded two people respectively.

    The fourth car bomb detonated near the house of a resident named Sirdar Sabir caused no injuries as the house was empty, said Taha, but adding that the house was totally destroyed in the attack.

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