Twelve IS fighters additionally reportedly died and stopping appears to be continuing.
Authorities and Kurdish forces started a long-awaited operation inside the path of the IS capital in Iraq, Mosul, on Monday.
Mosul lies 170km (one hundred and five miles) to the north-east of Kirkuk, a multi-ethnic town claimed each with the useful aid of Iraq's crucial government and the Kurds.
Government forces said on Friday that that that they had regained manipulate of a further villages - al-Awaizat and Nanaha - south of Mosul, evacuating sixty 5 displaced families and killing 15 IS militants.
Hours after the preliminary attack, witnesses in Kirkuk said gunfire might also additionally need to although be heard and militants have been walking openly via the streets. Preliminary reports counseled as many as sixteen civilians have been killed.
"due to the ongoing Mosul offensive, they'll want to create a state of affairs in which forces may be withdrawn from there and the point of interest shifted to Kirkuk," Mr Karim informed Kurdish facts employer Rudaw.
"additionally due to the fact they may be being defeated in Mosul, they want to enhance their morale with the ones kinds of moves."
5 Iranian employees are believed to be maximum of the dead in the attack on the power plant to the north of Kirkuk, Iraq's power ministry stated.
Seven extraordinary personnel and five police guards have been wounded.
The energy plant, which stays beneath creation, is being constructed via an Iranian agency.
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