A car bomb and gunfire killed two people in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh on Sunday, local police sources said.
A car bomb parked on the main road near the Hamam al-Alil town,40 km south of the provincial capital of Mosul City, detonated near a police patrol, killing a civilian and wounding five policemen, Brigadier Abdul Kareem al-Jubouri, head of the provincial police operations office, told Xinhua.
The attack damaged a police vehicle and several nearby shops and civilian cars, Jubouri said.
In separate incident, gunmen shot dead Iraqi Army Lieutenant Colonel Nayif al-Shimmari while he was driving his car in western Mosul City, a local police source said.
Meanwhile, gunmen also blew up the house of Abdul Mawjood Jar-Allah, head of the Qairawan town hall, 30 km east of Mosul, destroying his house without causing human casualty, Dekheel Qassim, mayor of the nearby Sinjar City, told Xinhua by telephone.
Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, has been the hot bed of insurgency and sectarian violence since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Source: Xinhua
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