At least eight people are wounded in a bomb attack near a police station in Kirkuk.<br/> <br />A number of Iraqi police vehicles were hit in the attack.<br/> <br />Last month at least 1,000 people, mainly civilians, were killed as Sunni militants swept through northern and western Iraq.<br/> <br />Mass killings have become a regular occurrence in Iraq for the first time since the worst days of sectarian and ethnic cleansing in 2006-2007.<br/> <br />The Sunni insurgents -- led by the group known as the Islamic State which considers all Shi'ites heretics who must repent or die -- boasted of killing hundreds of captive Shi'ite army troops after capturing the city of Tikrit on June 12.
