The victims and wounded were transferred to Hawija District Hospital, according to NRT reported.
The nine victims were part of the Federal Police’s 19 Brigade, a specialized explosive ordnance disposal unit.
Separately, Iraq’s Security Media Cell said that the security forces conducted an operation in Nineveh governorate and arrested thirteen suspected Islamic State (ISIS) militants.
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Four members of Iraq’s Federal Police were killed and five others were wounded as they tried to disarm a bomb in Kirkuk governorate’s Rashad sub-district.
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