7, including 2 cops, wounded in IED blast in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Seven persons, including two policemen, were wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast, the second in western Mosul city on Saturday, a police source in Ninewa said. “The IED attack targeted a federal police patrol in al-Thawra neighborhood, western Mosul. The civilians wounded in the explosion happened to be near the attack site,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. Earlier, an IED blast went of in the same area, leaving a civilian man killed and another wounded. Mosul, the capital city of the violence-stricken province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 2