(Xinhua) -- The head of the Nineveh provincial council said on Sunday that he survived a roadside bombattack on his convoy in the city of Mosul, 400 km north of Baghdad. "A roadside bomb detonated in the morning near my convoy while I was on my way to work in the al-Arabi neighborhood in northern Mosul," Hisham Abdul Kareem al-Hamdani told Xinhua by telephone. The blast damaged a vehicle of Hamdani's convoy, he said. Later in the day, another roadside bomb killed Maj. Gen. Qais al-Mamouri, the police chief of central Iraq's Babel province. The bomb also killed two of his guards and wounded six others.