The spokesman says the bomb went off Wednesday afternoon on a street in a southern neighborhood of Kirkuk. The explosion occurred as the convoy belonging to the gas company was passing by.
He says that 12 policemen and eight civilians were among the wounded.
Kirkuk is a northern oil city where Arabs, Turkomen and Kurds are competing for power. It lies 180 miles, or 290 kilometers, north of Baghdad.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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