Al-Sudani directs to investigate in the terrorist act in Kirkuk

INA-  Baghdad


Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani directed on Sunday to form an investigative council into the terrorist act in Kirkuk.
 
The spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Major General Yehia Rasool, said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "an officer with the rank of major and a number of affiliates martyred in a cowardly terrorist act by the explosion of an explosive device on a patrol of the federal police forces, in the village of Ali Al-Sultan in the Riyadh district of Kirkuk," noting that "the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, after being briefed on the course of the incident, directed the pursuit of the terrorist elements that carried out this cowardly terrorist."

He added that "the terrorists resorted to malicious methods after they received painful blows at the hands of our heroic security forces," noting that "the commander-in-chief of the armed forces directed the security units to pay attention and inspect the roads accurately and not to give a chance to terrorists, and also directed the formation of an investigative council for this terrorist incident."