Civilian wounded in hand-grenade blast

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: A civilian man was wounded in a hand-grenade attack on Thursday in central Mosul, where the culprit was later arrested, a source from Ninewa police said. “A man was injured when a gunman hurled a hand-grenade at his store in the area of al-Dawasa, central Mosul,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The police captured the perpetrator after a chase in the same area,” the source added. “The detainee is under investigative custody while the wounded was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment,” the source said, not giving further details about the incident. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1