Policeman killed, child wounded in Ninewa

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: A policeman was killed and a child wounded in two separate incidents in the city of Mosul on Thursday, a security source in Ninewa said. “A policeman was killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near his patrol in the district of al-Nimrod, southeast Mosul,” the source told Iraqi News. “Police forces detected the IED but it went off just as the policeman disembarked from his patrol vehicle to examine it,” the source added. Meanwhile, the same source added, a child was wounded when a stray bullet hit him in the area of al-Zanjili, western Mosul. Mosul, the capital city of the volatile province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1