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.
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.
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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.
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.
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