Two policemen, civilian, injured in bomb blast in Mosul:

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Two policemen and a civilian have been injured in a hand-grenade attack, targeted against a police patrol in eastern Mosul, whilst the security forces had managed to detain four persons, while they were loading a booby-trapped car in a service plant, a security source said on Friday. “A group of unknown gunmen threw a hand-grenade on a Ninewa Emergency Police patrol in eastern Mosul, that blew off, wounding two polilcemen and a civilian that happened to be in the venue of the blast,” the security source told IraqiNews.com news agency. In a related development, the security source said that Iraq‘s 26th Brigade force had managed to dismantle a booby-trapped car in a cement plant at Hammam al-Alil town, 20 kms to the south of Mosul, along with detaining four persons that had boobytrapped the car, without giving further details or the identity of the detained persons. Mosul, the center of Ninewa Province, is 405 kms to the north of Baghdad. PT / SKH 780