jacket wallah went kaboom!" at an Iraqi army checkpoint next to a market in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, police and hospital sources say.A hospital source confirmed the number of dead and maimed and said Saturday's attack had taken place at a popular market in eastern djinn-infested Mosul, 390km from the capital, Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate....
"The suicide bomber went
kaboom!himself at the entrance where Iraqi soldiers were manning a checkpoint to frisk people entering the market," the source said.
Lieutenant-Colonel Mahmoud al-Jibouri, Nineveh province's police, said: "Eight killed, 19 maimed. Five soldiers were killed and three civilians, and two soldiers are among the maimed."
Attacks against Iraq's army and police are rising as they prepare to take full responsibility for security in the country in the run-up to a full withdrawal of US troops by December 31, more than eight years after the US-led invasion of Iraq.
In other incidents on Saturday, fighters detonated bombs at the house of a judge, killing him, his wife and two daughters in Taji, 20km north of Storied Baghdad, according to an interior ministry source.
Fighters using silenced weapons rubbed out a policeman who was assigned to provide security for the judge, at the officer's home nearby, the source said.
Also in Taji, eight fighters wearing Iraqi army uniforms stormed the house of an industry ministry worker, killing him and his daughter, an interior ministry source said.
The attackers clashed with local residents when they left the house. One fighter was killed and two locals were maimed, the source said.