4 killed, wounded in Ninewa blast

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: A soldier and a civilian man were killed and three others wounded in a car bomb attack that targeted an Iraqi army patrol south of Mosul city on Sunday, a source from the city police said. “An explosive vehicle went off near an Iraqi army patrol in the village of al-Athba, al-Qiyara district, (60 km) south of Mosul, leaving two persons, including a soldier, killed and three civilians wounded,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “A military force cordoned off the blast site while another force carried the bodies to a a morgue and the wounded to a hospital for treatment,” he added. Mosul, the capital city of the unrest-stricken multi-ethnic province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 52