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Mosul suicide bomber kills top police official
A suicide bomber in police uniform killed a top police official in Mosul on Thursday as he toured the site of a blast a day earlier that killed 36 people and wounded scores.
- Reuters
- Published: 21:10 January 24, 2008
Baghdad: A suicide bomber in police uniform killed a top police official in Mosul on Thursday as he toured the site of a blast a day earlier that killed 36 people and wounded scores.
Rescuers were still digging through the rubble of Wednesday's explosion in search of survivors when the attacker blew up next to Nineveh province police director Brigadier-General Salih Mohammad Hasan Atiya Al Jubouri.
Nineveh provincial council chief Hesham Al Hamdani said 169 people had also been wounded in Wednesday's blast.
US and Iraqi military officials said the suicide bomber walked up to Al Jubouri as he toured the site and detonated a vest packed with explosives. He died of his wounds as he was being rushed for emergency treatment.
Scores wounded
Iraqi police had earlier incorrectly identified the senior police official killed as Brigadier-General Salih Mohammad Hasan, police chief in the Nineveh provincial capital Mosul.
The US military said two Iraqi police were also killed in Thursday's blast. Police said an Iraqi journalist working for the Chinese state news agency Xinhua was among five others wounded, although no more information was immediately available.
The US military said a US soldier was also wounded.
US commanders have identified Mosul as Al Qaida's last major urban stronghold in Iraq.
Mosul officials imposed an indefinite curfew after Wednesday's massive blast, blamed by US military commanders on Al Qaida, in Mosul.
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