The ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack on two Iraqi Federal Police vehicles in the south of Kirkuk province, killing at least 12 Iraqi police officers.

Iran PressMiddle East: The heavy blast occurred in the path of two vehicles of the Iraqi Federal Police officers in the south of Kirkuk Province near the village of Al-Safra in the Riyadh region.

It is said that two high-ranking officers were among the dead.

A security source told Baghdad Al-Youm that after the explosion, the terrorists began shooting at the police cars. An ISIS attacker was also killed in the exchange of fire.

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