Two Iraqis, including a policeman, were killed and another people was injured in two gunfire attacks on Monday in the northern city of Mosul, capital of Nineveh province, a provincial police source said.
"Unknown gunmen opened fire in the afternoon on a police patrol in the Zanjili neighborhood in western Mosul, killing a policeman and wounding another," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity
Also in western the city, gunmen shot dead a shop owner in the al-Borsa neighborhood, the source added.
Iraqi security forces rushed to the scenes and immediately launched search operations seeking for the attackers, the source said.
Nineveh province, and its capital city Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, is said to be one of the last strongholds of al-Qaida fighters in the war-torn country.
The province has been the scene of a major security crackdown carried out by U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces aimed at uprooting al-Qaida militants and other anti-U.S. insurgent groups.
Source: Xinhua
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