Thursday, October 19, 2006
Car bomb kills 12 in Mosul
Security
A suicide bomber blew up a fuel truck outside Abi Tamam police station at 7:15 am in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, killing 12 people and wounding 26, and rebels fired mortar rounds at another station in coordinated attacks, police and doctors said. Another police source said a car bomb, also driven by a suicide bomber, could have exploded before the suicide truck bomb. The governor imposed a curfew and Iraqi forces were patrolling the city, a Reuters reporter in Mosul said. Police fired into the air in several parts of the city, forcing motorists and pedestrians to scurry for cover. Mosul, Iraq's third largest city, has witnessed a recent escalation of violence by Sunni insurgents and between Sunni Arabs and ethnic Kurds vying to control the urban area and the surrounding area.
