Mosul blast casualties up to 95

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: One person was killed and 94 others wounded in a final count of casualties from a blast earlier on Sunday that targeted two buses carrying Christian students east of Mosul, a local official said. “The final count of casualties from a blast of a car bomb and an improvised explosive device that targeted two buses boarding Christian students from Mosul University residents of al-Hamdaniya district, east of Mosul, was one death and 94 wounded,” Abdulrahim al-Shimari, the chairman of the Ninewa Provincial Council’s Security & Defense Committee, told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The wounds of about 10 of them are critical and were rushed to the Arbil hospital for treatment,” Shimari added. He noted security forces had been escorting the buses “in light of operations that targeted Christians in Mosul in the past”. Earlier, a police source in Ninewa had said a civilian man was killed and 90 others wounded in a blast from a car bomb and an IED that went off Christian university students in the area of Kokgli, east of Mosul. Mosul, the capital city of the violence-stricken province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (S) 3