Two children killed, 3 injured in one family, in mosul blast

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Two children have been killed and three members of their own family have been injured, in an explosive charge blast east of northern Iraq ’s city of Mosul on Sunday, a security source said.   “An explosive charge blew off on Sunday night, killing two children and wounding three others from their family in al-Qasr village of Hamdaniya township, 40 km to the north of Mosul ,” the security source told IraqiNews.com news agency.   He said the explosive charge “was not targeted against any military position, when it blew off close to a filling station in the said village,” adding that the victims had been from one family, including two children killed, their two brothers and their mother injured.”   Mosul , the center of Ninewa Province , is 405 km to the north of Baghdad .   SKH (ST)