Two car bombs detonated on Wednesday in the northern city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, killing four people and wounding 20 others, a provincial police source said.
A booby-trapped car detonated in the evening near a police patrol in the Sa'ah neighborhood in Mosul, Brigadier Khalid Abdul-Sattar, spokesman of the provincial security operations office told Xinhua.
Minutes later, another car bomb went off at the scene as many people gathered to check the casualties, Sattar said.
A total of three policemen and one civilian were killed by the two blasts and some 20 others were wounded, including three policemen, he said.
Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, has long been the hot bed of insurgency and sectarian violence since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Source:Xinhua
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