Army defuses bomb northwest of Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Iraqi army forces defused an explosive charge near the house of the director of al-Ayadiya district, north of Talafar, northwest of Mosul, a media source said on Tuesday. “A force from the 10th brigade of the 3rd division of the Iraqi army defused on Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 27) an explosive charge planted near the house of the director of al-Ayadiya district, Falah Hassan Younes,” Colonel Shehab Ahmad told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The operation ended without casualties,” he added. Talafar is 60 km northwest of Mosul, the capital of Ninewa, which lies 405 km north of Baghdad. SH (P) 1