Woman, 24, killed in gas cylinder explosion at Kirkuk home

KIRKUK — A 24-year-old woman was killed on Thursday when a cooking gas cylinder exploded inside her home in Taza subdistrict, Kirkuk governorate, a police source said.

The woman, Zahra Mohammed, died after the explosion earlier in the day, the source in the Kirkuk Police Command said. Her body was taken to the Kirkuk forensic medicine department, and authorities have opened an investigation.

In June, 11 people were injured, three women critically, when a gas leak ignited as families baked traditional bread in Zakho, health officials said. On Dec. 17, 2025, Mullah Tahsin Abdulla, a preacher at Bastora Mosque, died in Erbil’s Emergency Hospital of injuries from a gas explosion, and a day earlier a woman was killed in a gas explosion in the Zarayan subdistrict of Sharazur, Sulaymaniyah.