A roadside bomb went off near the city of Mosul, the capital of northern Iraq's Nineveh province, killing four Iraqis and wounding eight others, the U.S. military said Tuesday.
The attack took place at about 3:30 p.m. (1230 GMT) on Monday, when the bomb struck a convoy carrying contractors in an area located 23 km south of Mosul, a military statement said.
Nineveh province, some 400 km north of Baghdad, was said to be one of the last strongholds of al-Qaida fighters in the war-torn country, where a major security crackdown carried out by the U.S. and Iraqi security forces to uproot al-Qaida militants and other anti-U.S. insurgent groups.
Source:Xinhua
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