By Xinhua
Mosul (Iraq) : Eight people, seven of them security personnel, were killed in two attacks in Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, the provincial police said Wednesday.
“Unknown gunmen attacked a police checkpoint late Tuesday in the Ein al-Beidha village in al-Qaiyara town, 25 km south of Mosul, killing six policemen,” the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Separately, gunmen stormed the house of an Iraqi army officer in the al-Zinjili neighbourhood in Mosul early Wednesday, killing him and his father.
Insurgents frequently attack Iraqi security forces, accusing them of collaborating with the US occupation army.
Mosul, Iraq’s third largest city some 400 km north of Baghdad, has been a hotbed of insurgency and sectarian violence since the US-led invasion in 2003.