3rd Mosul car bomb blast wounds woman, policeman

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: A woman and a policeman were wounded in a car bomb in Mosul, the third of its kind in the city on Thursday, a police source in Ninewa said. “A third car bomb, parked at a main street, went off on Thursday (March 5) near a police patrol in Wadi Hajar, southern Mosul, leaving a policeman and a woman wounded,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. A Ninewa security source had told IraqiNews.com that a car rigged with explosives driven by a suicide bomber targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint in al-Hadbaa neighborhood, northern Mosul, leaving six people, including an Iraqi soldier, wounded. The first car bomb in Mosul on Thursday, which was parked at a main road in al-Abar neighborhood, western Mosul, went off but left no casualties. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1