By IINA,
Mosul : Nine people have been killed by a suicide car bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Nearly 50 others were wounded by the blast, which targeted the provincial police headquarters in the city centre. Four policemen were among those killed as an explosives-laden car exploded near a checkpoint outside the compound about 2000 local time, police said.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but Mosul is the last major urban stronghold of al-Qaeda in Iraq. The US military and Iraqi troops launched an offensive to clear the city – 390 km north of Baghdad – of Sunni militants last month.