Four wounded in Mosul blast
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi army officer in the rank of lieutenant and three others, including a soldier, were wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in eastern Mosul city on Sunday, a local police source said.
An IED went off just as an army patrol was passing by in the al-Maliya neighborhood, eastern Mosul, leaving two patrolmen, including an officer in the rank of lieutenant, and two civilians near the blast scene wounded, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The wounded were rushed to the nearby al-Salam Hospital for treatment, he added, not giving more information about the incident.
Posted by: Steve White 2011-01-10 |