Blasts targeting Shiites in Iraq's Kirkuk kill four A series of blasts outside Shiite prayer halls killed four people and wounded 19 others on Friday in Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk. The deadliest blast took place in a car park outside the Mustafa prayer hall, or husseiniya, in the city's southwest, where a car bomb killed four worshippers and wounded 15 others after they had finished prayers. IMAGES