(KUNA) -- Explosives packed into a vehicle blew up in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday killing at least two people and wounding 19 others, a local source said. The source of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the booby-trapped car went off near a building housing offices of the party, killing two civilians, wounding 19 people and causing extensive damage to nearby buildings.In the northern city of Kirkuk, gunmen showered a police patrol with gunfire in the center of the city killing one policeman and wounding another, police reported. The attackers, two armed men, were arrested.
In the governorate of Al-Huwaijah, southwest of Kirkuk, a bomb blast targetted a police patrol wounding three policemen.
Earlier today, a blast in Baghdad killed five civilians and injured 11 others. A police source told KUNA the explosion was caused by a bomb planted near civilians waiting in line at a gas station in the eastern Al-Muthanna suburb. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital.