Mosul, August 22: At least four Iraqi army personnel have lost their lives as a car bomb explosion ripped through their police patrol in the west of Mosul.
Talafar’s Police Chief Ali Hadi Ubeid said that a car rigged with explosives blew up on Friday afternoon near an Iraqi army vehicle patrol at Uwaynat village in the Rabiea district, west of the northern city of Mosul.
The security sources added that a major and a lieutenant were among the victims. Four other people also sustained injuries in the terrorist attack.
A volatile ethnic mix of Sunni Arabs, Kurds and Christians, Mosul remains the scene of frequent shootings and bombings.
This is while two civilians were killed and 20 others wounded when an improvised explosive device blew up in the al-Rashied vegetables and fruits market in southern Baghdad on Friday. The bombing happened only two days after a wave of explosions ripped through Baghdad’s civilian and diplomatic areas close to government buildings and claimed almost 100 lives.
Elsewhere, unidentified assailants attacked Iraqi lawmaker, Ahmad Saleh, and his family as they were driving on the al-Rabiya village road in Daqouq district, south of oil-rich Kirkuk. The attack did not cause causalities.
—–Agencies