Gunman robs Kirkuk currency exchange for over $17,000

KIRKUK — An unidentified gunman stole 25 million dinars ($17,730) from the Fouj Al-Yasmin currency exchange in Kirkuk’s Wasiti neighborhood on Monday, injuring the owner before escaping, security sources said.

“The Fouj Al-Yasmin outlet in the Wasiti neighborhood was subjected to an armed robbery, and the thief managed to steal 25 million dinars,” a security source told 964media.

The source said the outlet’s owner “was injured by a gunshot before crime prevention forces arrived, after the thief had fled.”

Security forces opened an investigation into the robbery but have not yet made an arrest.

Bloodstains outside a shuttered shop in Kirkuk’s Wasiti neighborhood after an armed robbery left an exchange outlet owner injured