5 wounded in blast targeting policeman in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Five people, including a police officer, were wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in southern Mosul city on Thursday, a local security source in Ninewa said. “An IED attached to the vehicle of a police officer went off in Wadi Hajar area, southern Mosul, leaving him severely wounded along with four civilians others who happened to be near the blast scene,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The federal police officer, in the rank of First Lieutenant, was wounded severely that one of his legs had to be amputated,” he added, not revealing further details. Mosul, the capital city of the violence-stricken province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 3