By Xinhua
Mosul : A suicide bomber stormed a wedding ceremony in a town near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Thursday, killing four people and wounding five others, local police sources said.
"A suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up in a wedding party inside a house in the town of Tal Afar, 70 km west of Mosul," Staff Brigadier Ibrahim al-Jubouri, chief police officer of the town told Xinhua by telephone.
The attack targeted the house of a brother of an Iraqi police officer in the town, killing four people and wounding five others, most of them in a critical condition, al-Jubouri said.
In a separate incident, a car bomb detonated in the Bab Sinjar neighbourhood in western Mosul, local police sources said.
The attack targeted a passing police patrol in the neighbourhood, wounding two policemen and four civilians, the source added.
Mosul is the capital of the Iraqi Nineveh province, some 400 km north of Baghdad.