Two killed in protests over city’s future

TWO people were killed yesterday after gunfire erupted as hundreds of Arab and Turkmens marched in protest over fears of Kurdish domination in the oil-rich northern Iraq city of Kirkuk.

In Baghdad, a car bomb exploded as a US convoy passed on a street full of shops, destroying one Humvee, Iraqi police said. An 8-year-old Iraqi boy was killed and 11 other Iraqi bystanders were being treated for injuries, doctors said.

A spokesman for the US-led coalition said he could confirm only that there was an explosion.