An Iraqi human-rights worker was killed by a roadside bomb in the disputed northern city of Kirkuk Thursday, police told the German Press Agency dpa.
Police Colonel Salah al-Din Taha said the man was critically injured by a roadside bomb as he drove down al-Quds street in Kirkuk.
Emergency responders rushed the injured man to hospital, where he died of his wounds, Taha said.
Kirkuk has long been the subject of a tense dispute between Iraqi Kurds, many of whom hope to make the city the capital of a future state, and Arab and Turkman residents of the city, who view the city and other disputed territories as integral parts of Iraq.
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