Gunmen blow up house in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Unidentified gunmen blew up the house of an employee in the Mosul provincial council on Thursday, according to a security source in Ninewa. “Unidentified gunmen detonated a house owned by an employee working for the Ninewa provincial council in al-Amrin village, Hammam al-Aleel district, southern Mosul,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The house was vacant of residents at the time,” 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