By Xinhua
Mosul, Iraq : A suicide car bomb attack targeted a U.S. patrol in the northern province of Nineveh on Tuesday, wounding some 15 people, a provincial police source said.
“A suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden car into a U.S. patrol in the al-Baath neighborhood in the volatile capital city of Mosul,” Brigadier Sa’id al-Jubouri, head of the provincial police media office, told Xinhua.
The blast wounded 15 people and caused damages to 10 nearby civilian cars, Jubouri said.
The source could not tell whether the U.S. patrol sustained any casualties as the troops immediately cordoned off the scene. The U.S. military has no immediate comment on the incident.
An earlier U.S. military statement said that five of its soldiers were killed in the city on Monday by a roadside bomb and small arms fire.
Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, is Iraq’s third-largest city, which is among the most-hit areas by violence despite a security pickup in most of Iraq.