By Xinhua,
Mosul, Iraq : A bomb explosion killed a deputy dean of a college in Mosul University in northern Iraq on Monday, a local police source said.
Professor Faris Younis, deputy dean for scientific affairs in the college of agriculture, was killed when an explosive charge planted in his car detonated in the afternoon, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The blast took place while Younis was leaving home from his college in northern the city, some 400 km north of Baghdad, the source said.
A guard of the college was also wounded by the blast, he said, adding that an investigation on the incident is under way.
Hundreds of high-profile academics and professionals have either been killed or kidnapped by militiamen across Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
In a separate incident, a suicide car bomber struck the police headquarters in Dawassah neighborhood in central the city in the evening, killing three policemen and four civilians and wounding 25 people, the police said.
The attacks came as the U.S. and Iraqi security forces are conducting a major offensive against al-Qaida militants in Nineveh province and its capital city of Mosul.