3 civilians wounded in grenade blast in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Three civilians were wounded in a hand-grenade blast in central Mosul city on Thursday, a security source in Ninewa said. “The grenade was hurled by a gunman at a gathering of uniform-clad policemen in Bab al-Toub, central Mosul, while they were shopping on a local market in the area, but the bomb missed them and went off near civilians,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1