IED kills child, wounds woman in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: A three-year-old child was killed and a woman was wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated in Mosul city, according to a local police source. “The explosive device went off in al-Iqtisadiyeen neighborhood, western Mosul,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The blast did not target military personnel,” the source noted, adding that the body of the child was taken to the morgue. “Meanwhile, a policeman was wounded when two mortars fell on a police headquarters in al-Wahda neighborhood, southeastern Mosul,” according to the same source. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. SS (P) 1