Roadside bomb defused in Talafar

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Policemen on Friday defused a roadside bomb and arrested the gunman who planted it in central Talafar, an official police source said. “A force from the emergency police department arrested a gunman from his house in Talafar, northwest of Mosul, and found two thermal bombs inside his house,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The man admitted to planting a bomb between Musaab bin Omier and the health center in al-Wehda neighborhood, central Talafar,” the source added, noting that the experts defused the bomb without casualties. Mosul, the capital of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. SH (P) 1