Massive explosions rocked a major U.S. military base outside the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk Wednesday, shrouding the city in smoke, after what police said was a rocket strike on an arms store.<\/p>\n
Shells and rockets screamed into the night sky over the base at Kirkuk’s main airport and thick smoke rolled across the whole area, a Reuters reporter said from the scene.<\/p>\n
The initial blast around 10 p.m. was followed by sirens on the base and mayhem that was continuing an hour and half later.<\/p>\n
“You can see rockets flying and landing all over the base,” reporter Adnan Hadi said from a vantage point some 500 yards from the base perimeter. “The windows of buildings close to the base have all been shattered.”
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\n“A Katyusha rocket hit an arms store,” district police chief Borhan Taeb Taheb told Reuters.<\/p>\n
Taheb said he knew of no casualties among civilians outside the base, which covers a very wide area. No ambulances or fire trucks were seen moving in the city, which was under curfew. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Developing. As an aside, this is the first time I’ve heard Kirkuk was under a curfew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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