IED blast kills child, wounds 2 in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: A five-year-old girl was killed and two of her siblings were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near their home in western Mosul city on Saturday, a police source in Ninewa said. “The IED blast, which targeted a National Police patrol in the area of New Mosul, in the western part of the city, killed a five-year-old girl and wounded two of her siblings,” the source told Iraqi News. Mosul , the capital city of the volatile province of Ninewa , lies 405 km north of Baghdad . AmR (P)/SR 1