Gunmen stormed four houses in the city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, and blew them up on Monday, killing a child and wounding two people, a provincial police source said.
The unknown gunmen planted explosives in the four houses before dawn in the Rasheediyah neighborhood in northern Mosul and blew them up, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The four houses belong to two politicians and two security members respectively, the source said, adding that the blasts destroyed the houses and caused damages to several civilian cars.
On Sunday evening a suicide car bomb which struck a police headquarters in the town of Tel-Keif, some 20 km north of Mosul, killing a policeman and wounding six people, a provincial police source said.
Also in the evening, gunmen stormed the office of an Iraqi attorney Adel Hassan al-Waggaa in the northeast of Mosul and shot him dead, the source said.
The incidents occurred as the U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces are staging a security crackdown against insurgent groups in Nineveh province which said to be one of the last strongholds of al-Qaida fighters in the war-torn country.
Source:Xinhua
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