Iraqi soldier killed, another wounded, in attack in north Iraq’s Talaafar town:

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: An Iraqi soldier has been killed and another soldier injured in an armed attack against an Army patrol in northern Iraq’s Talaafar town on Monday night, according to a Ninewa security official. “A group of armed men have launched an attack against a patrol, belonging to the Iraqi Army’s 3rd Division in al-Salam area, north of Talaafar town, 60 kms to the northwest of Mosul, the capital of north Iraq’s Ninewa Province on Monday, killing a soldier and seriously wounding another soldier, who was driven to the nearby Talaafar Hospital for treatment,” the security official told IraqiNews.com news agency. He said the security forces had arrested a number of suspected persons for investigation, in an attempt to reach the real offenders, who carried out the attack. Mosul, the center of Ninewa Province, is 405 kms to the north of Mosul. JT (A) / SKH 8