(AKI) - A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul on Tuesday, killing seven and wounding seven others. The suicide bomber drove his explosives-laden car into a checkpoint in the al-Quds neighbourhood of the city which is the capital of Ninevah province.
"Seven were killed and seven others wounded in Tuesday's car bombing that targeted a checkpoint of the Iraqi army in al-Quds neighbourhood," a source told the news agency, Voices of Iraq.
Iraqi security forces immediately sealed off the area to secure the scene and evacuate the casualties.
Nineveh province, and its capital Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, is widely regarded as an Al-Qaeda stronghold in Iraq.
In Baghdad, two roadside bombs targeting police patrols killed four people and wounded 17, including women and children, on Tuesday morning.
In the first incident, an improvised explosive device detonated near Al-Kendi Hospital in central Baghdad, killing a policeman and a civilian, police said.