North Iraq’s Mosul’s Mayor escapes assassination

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: The Mayor of the city of Mosul, the center of north Iraq’s Ninewa Province, has escaped an assassination attempt during an attack on his house in southern Mosul, a Ninewa security source reported on Wednesday. “Mosul‘s Mayor, Hussein Ali Hachem, has escaped an assassination attempt at dawn Wednesday, in an attack against his house that caused material damage to the house at Gayara township, 60 km to the south of Mosul, but the Mayor was not hurt, when his guards returned fire and forced the attackers to escape,” the security source told IraqiNews.com news agency. Mosul, the center of Ninewa Province, is 405 km to the north of Baghdad.