(KUNA) -- Iraqi Police Commander in the city of Mosul Major General Watheq Al-Hamdani survived on Thursday an assassination attempt after an improvised bomb exploded targeting his patrol South of Mosul. Al-Hamdani said in a press release that the explosion which occurred in the Al-Wehda area in Mosul resulted in the killing of one of his body guards and that another was injured.Meanwhile, Al-Hamdani said that police forces have conducted raid operations in the city, arresting 20 terrorists and siezed a huge amount of weapons cache. Iraqi police patrols also discovered six dead bodies, two of which were beheaded.