Army defuses car bomb in eastern Mosul

NINEWA /Iraqi News Army forces on Tuesday defused a car bomb and arrested its driver after wounding him in eastern Mosul, an army source said. “A force from the 2nd division of the Iraqi army managed on Tuesday afternoon (March 9) to defuse a booby-trapped car and to arrest the gunman who was driving it after shooting him,” the source told Iraqi News. Mosul, the capital of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. SH (P)/SR 2