Fifteen people were wounded by a car bomb targeting a Syrian Orthodox church in Kirkuk in northern Iraq

Fifteen people were wounded on Tuesday by a car bomb targeting a Syrian Orthodox church in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, a police officer and a priest said.
  
The bomb exploded at the Holy Family church in the north of Kirkuk at about 5:30 am (0230 GMT), wounding 15 people including church staff and people in neighboring houses, the high-ranking officer in the Kirkuk police said.
  
The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added that 30 homes in the area were damaged. Imad Hanna, a priest, said it was the first time the church had been targeted. "Women, children and men from this neighborhood were wounded in the explosion," he said, added that two of the wounded were in critical condition.