Eastern Mosul blast casualties up to 36

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Casualties from the suicide car bomb explosion that ripped through eastern Mosul rose to 36 wounded, a security source said on Wednesday. “A total of 36 persons, including 18 soldiers and five policemen, were wounded in the booby-trapped car blast that targeted Iraqi army camp in al-Qadissiya neighborhood in eastern Mosul,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. A police source had said earlier that 27 people were wounded in the explosion. Mosul, the capital of Ninewa, is 405 km north of Baghdad. SH (P) 2