A suicide bomber kills at least six people, including two Kurdish security personnel, in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk Wednesday.<br/> <br />It is the first such attack to hit the city since Kurdish peshmerga fighters occupied it two weeks ago.<br/> <br />More than 20 people were injured.<br/> <br />Authorities say the suicide bomber blew himself up when police stopped him as he tried to enter a crowded market in a mostly Kurdish neighborhood.<br/> <br />A Kurdish security source says the suicide attacker was wearing Kurdish dress.<br/> <br />Kurdish security forces suspected he was hiding something under his clothes, and when they tried to stop him at the entrance to search him, he blew himself up.<br/> <br />The United Nations says more than 1,000 people, mainly civilians, have been killed as Sunni insurgents advance in Iraq, spearheaded by al Qaeda offshoot -- the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
