Policeman killed, another wounded in attack in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: A policeman was killed and another wounded in an armed attack by an unidentified group on a security patrol in western Mosul city on Monday, a police source in the province said. “Unidentified gunmen in a vehicle opened fire today at a police patrol in the western Baghdad area of al-Zanjili, killing one policeman and injuring another,” the source told IraqiNews.com. “After the incident, other policemen fired back at the gunmen who managed to escape to an unknown place,” the source added. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. The original city of Mosul stands on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the ancient biblical city of Nineveh on the east bank, but the metropolitan area has now grown to encompass substantial areas on both banks, with five bridges linking the two sides. Despite having an amount of Kurdish population, it does not form part of the area controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government Kurdistan RegionG). There are different communities in Mosul like Christians, Shiites and Kurds along with a Sunni majority. The city is also a historic center for the Nestorian Christianity of the Assyrians, containing the tombs of several Old Testament prophets such as Jonah, Yunus in Arabic, and Nahum. AmR (S) 1