The head of the Nineveh provincial council said on Sunday that he survived a roadside bombattack on his convoy in the city of Mosul, 400 km north of Baghdad.
"A roadside bomb detonated in the morning near my convoy while I was on my way to work in the al-Arabi neighborhood in northern Mosul," Hisham Abdul Kareem al-Hamdani told Xinhua by telephone.
The blast damaged a vehicle of Hamdani's convoy, he said.
Later in the day, another roadside bomb killed Maj. Gen. Qais al-Mamouri, the police chief of central Iraq's Babel province. Thebomb also killed two of his guards and wounded six others.
Insurgency and sectarian violence claimed the lives of dozens of thousands of Iraqis, including senior government officials, since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Source:Xinhua
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