Alwaght- At least 16 people have been killed in multiple ISIS terrorists’ attacks on Iraq’s northern Province of Kirkuk, official sources said on Friday.
Iraqi security sources said gunmen wearing explosive vests raided multiple government targets in Kirkuk Province, including a police headquarters and a power plant, early on Friday.
Images broadcast on local television showed what appeared to be dead or injured fighters on the street. The attack comes as Iraqi and Kurdish forces battle ISIS militants in Iraq's second-largest city of Mosul.
At least 16 people, including 12 Iraqi administrators and engineers as well as four Iranian technicians, lost their lives during the terrorist raid on the power plant in Dibis District of Kirkuk, the region’s mayor Abdullah Nureddin al-Salehi and other local officials told AFP.
At least eight terrorists were also killed, either by blowing themselves up or in clashes with the security forces, the security sources said.
Kirkuk is about 175 kilometers (109 miles) southeast of Mosul.
Oil-rich Kirkuk has been attacked before by ISIS terrorists. The city's significance stems from the fact its oil reserves are almost as much as those in southern Iraq.
