2nd car bomb blast leaves 6 wounded in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Six people were wounded in a suicide car bombing attack on an Iraqi army checkpoint in northern Mosul, the second of its kind on Thursday, a Ninewa police source said. “A car rigged with explosives driven by a suicide bomber targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint in the neighborhood of al-Hadbaa, northern Mosul, leaving six people, including an Iraqi soldier, wounded,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “Two women and an infant were among the wounded,” he added. “The wounded were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment,” said the source, not giving further details. Earlier on Thursday (March 5), a police source in Ninewa told IraqiNews.com that a car bomb went off in the western Mosul neighborhood of al-Abar but left no casualties. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1