Young man killed in blast in northern Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: A young man was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in northern Mosul blast on Thursday, a local police source in Ninewa said. “The 17-year-old civilian young man was killed when it went off near him as his friend who found out the charge rushed to notify an Iraqi army unit that was near the scene,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 2