A car bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol killed four, apparently policemen, and wounded 16 among them many civilians, in Mosul on Saturday, a police source said Saturday. The blast took place in Al-Hamdaniya, 30 km in northeast Mosul, north of Iraq, at 3.30 in the afternoon (local time), Brigadier Mohammad Al-Waka'a told KUNA by phone. Al-Hamdaniya's is mostly inhabited by Christians.Meanwhile, a journalist in the Sada Al-Mosul newspaper was killed Saturday when a mortar shell landed close to his house in central Mosul, 395 km north of Baghdad, Brigadier Saeed Al-Jabouri, spokesman of the Ninawa Province police said. Abdul-Khaleq Nasser was killed when the mortar, whose source was not identified, fell close to his house late Friday night.
In yet another act of violence, unidentified gunmen assassinated the Imam of a Sunni Muslim in Al-Methaq Mosque in Mosul on getting out of the mosque. Sheikh Ghanim Qasim was a
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