The death toll from the twin bomb attack in northern Iraq rose to 17 and some 62 people wounded, a provincial police source said.
"Our latest reports said that 17 people were killed and 62 others wounded by the double car bomb and roadside bomb explosion in Mosul," the source told Xinhua condition of anonymity.
The double bombing took place after midday and apparently targeted the convoy of governor of Nineveh province Duraid Kashmoulah in the Bab al-Toub area in central Mosul on Thursday.
Kashmoulah narrowly escaped unhurt but two of his bodyguards were killed and five others wounded by the attack, the source said.
Kashmoulah came under the attack when he was visiting a popular market in the old neighborhood hit by mortar rounds on Wednesday night, the source said.
The province and its capital Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, is the scene of a major security crackdown carried out by U.S. and Iraqi security forces to uproot insurgent groups, including al-Qaida in Iraq network. Nineveh is said to be one of the last strongholds of al-Qaida fighters in the war-torn country.
Source: Xinhua
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