Explosion kills four policemen in Kirkuk; eight injured

March 20, 2005 Four policemen are dead and eight people are injured, after a roadside explosion in, Iraq earlier today, according to Lieutenant Colonel Yadkar Muhammad.

The officers had just attended a funeral for a fellow officer, who had been killed on Friday by gunmen after another roadside explosion.

The military had no information about today's explosion.

Hundreds of policemen have been killed since the start of the US-led.