Baghdad  - Two suspected terrorists were injured Saturday while driving an explosives-laden vehicle in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, security sources said.

Police officer Adnan Mahmoud told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that two potential suicide bombers were driving a vehicle which exploded in the Korneesh area of central Kirkuk.

The explosion injured the two, but police detained them for investigation, Mahmoud said.

In other news, a bomb went off on Saturday targeting a US patrol in Bashir village, southern Kirkuk, police sources told dpa.

Losses were not immediately known. (dpa)