(VOI) --A Syrian gunman was killed in clashes that took place in eastern Mosul on Friday, according to the Ninewa police chief, announcing a new security plan in the province during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. "Among the three gunmen killed on Friday evening by police forces in the clashes that occurred in eastern Mosul, there was a Syrian citizen," Maj. General Khalid Hussein al-Hamdani told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). "The Ninewa police department prepared a security plan for the occasion of Ramadan to impose security in the province," he said. "The people would recognize improvement in security during this month," he added.