3 army soldiers wounded in IED blast in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Three Iraqi army personnel were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near their patrol in western Mosul city on Friday, a military source said. “An IED blast targeted a patrol of the Iraqi army in the area of al-Haramat, western Mosul, leaving two soldiers and one officer in the rank of first lieutenant injured,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “Security forces imposed a security cordon in search of the culprits and rushed the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment,” he added. The source did not give further details. Mosul, the capital city of the volatile province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 2