10 April,2009 06:46 PM IST | | AFP
At least eight people were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide truck bombing in Iraq's restive northern city of Mosul on Friday, security sources said.
The explosives-laden truck ploughed into the police station in the southern part of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Juburi told AFP.
An interior ministry official in Baghdad said at least eight people were killed in the blast and another 20 were wounded.
Despite repeated Iraqi-US operations in Mosul, the city is still gripped by a strong insurgency, in part due to a complex Kurd, Sunni and Christian mix but also because of tribal rivalries.
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Earlier on Friday two roadside bomb attacks near Baghdad killed three people and wounded seven others, according to local security officials.
In the first attack a woman was killed by an explosion that also wounded her husband and two children in the Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, a religiously and ethnically fractured region that still sees sporadic attacks despite major security gains over the past year.
In a similar attack in the town of Yusifiyah south of Baghdad two civilians were killed and another four were wounded, according to a local official.
