ERBIL — A roadside bomb wounded five people in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk on Saturday. One of the injured was seriously hurt and lost both legs, police sources said.

The bomb targeted a commercial district in the city center. It was planted in a shop near the Azadi police station and exploded in the Mosalla neighborhood of Kirkuk, a police source told BasNews.

Kirkuk police initially reported four injuries, but the city's health department later stated, "The number of injured is five," noting that one of them was "slightly injured" by an explosive fragment and was not included in the security forces' report. Additionally, six children were slightly injured. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

"My house is close to the scene. When we heard a loud noise, we didn't know what it was. When we arrived, several people were injured. We don't know what caused it," an eyewitness said.

Earlier in the week, four Iraqi soldiers were killed and three others injured in an ambush on an army convoy southwest of Kirkuk, for which Islamic State militants claimed responsibility.

Despite the group’s defeat in 2017, remnants continue to conduct hit-and-run attacks against government forces across central and southern Iraq.