A statement issued by the Region's Presidency said that such savage acts by terrorist in such a critical circumstances the country is going through is a desperate attempt aiming to instigate diversity among the people; yet it will not deter security agencies from carrying on their task of combating terrorism.

The statement expressed the Region's Presidency's sorrow and condolences to the victims' families wishing the wounded a speedy recovery. Earlier in the day, a car bomb exploded against the Dibis district's police station, northwest of Kirkuk, 4 persons and wounding 99 others, most of them policemen and students of a nearby Kurdish studies high school