Senior police officer wounded in attack in Ninewa

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: A senior police officer was wounded Tuesday in a bomb blast that targeted his motorcade in western Mosul, according to a police source. “Deputy director of the checkpoints affairs of the Ninewa police, Colonel Hazem Hamoud Ali, was wounded on Tuesday evening (Oct. 5) in an explosive charge blast that targeted his motorcade in al-Islah al-Zeraie neighborhood, western Mosul,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The attack also injured two policemen,” he added. This morning, unknown gunmen shot and killed Brigadier Mohammad Aziz, chief of the criminal investigation department in Ninewa, near his house in al-Mithaq neighborhood, eastern Mosul. SH (P) 1