U.S. and Iraqi police Monday clashed with Iraqi gunmen in northern city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, killing 11 people, including four policemen, a provincial police source said.
Gunmen ambushed a police patrol with machine-guns and rocket propelled grenades, sparking a two-hour fighting in southern the city in the afternoon, Brigadier Abdul Kareem al-Jubouri, head of the provincial police operations office, told Xinhua.
The fighting resulted in the killing of four policemen, al-Jubouri said.
U.S. forces in the city rushed to the scene and took part in the clashes, killing seven of the attackers, Jubouri said.
Separately, the police found two bodies in execution-style in the Mithaq neighborhood in eastern the city, Jubouri added.
Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, has been the hotbed of insurgency and sectarian violence since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Source: Xinhua
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