At least 25 people were killed and 79 were wounded in a series of attacks against police in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk

A series of attacks against police in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday killed at least 25 people and wounded 79 others, the majority of whom were policemen.
  
Three explosions -- two car bombs and a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to a car -- occurred around one hour apart in the city, security officials said.
The first of the blasts occurred at 9:20 am (0620 GMT) when the "sticky bomb" exploded in the parking lot of the city's police headquarters, Major Salam Zangan said. When police and emergency responders arrived at the scene shortly afterwards, a car bomb detonated.
  
"The explosions today killed 25 people and wounded 79 others," said Sadiq Omar Rasul, the director of Kirkuk's provincial health department. "The majority of the casualties were police."
The twin blasts caused massive damage to nearby police and civilian vehicles, and several police cars with loudspeakers affixed to them could be heard appealing to Kirkuk residents to make their way to the city's hospital to donate much-needed blood for victims, an AFP journalist said.
  
At around 10:30 am, another car bomb exploded near the convoy of a senior police official in Kirkuk, Colonel Aras Mohammed. He and 13 of his bodyguards were wounded in the blast, which also caused serious damage to several nearby cars and buildings, a security official said, on condition of anonymity.