Roadside bomb hits Kirkuk police patrol

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) - An Iraqi traffic police officer was killed and four others were wounded by a roadside bomb that struck their patrol in central Kirkuk city Saturday morning, a Kirkuk police official said.

The wounded included Col. Ahmed Rashid, the commander of Kirkuk's traffic police, the official said.

Kirkuk is and oil-rich and ethnically diverse city in northern Iraq's Tameem Province, about 150 miles (240 km) north of Baghdad.