4 Iraqis, including 2 policemen killed in Kirkuk, Mosul

Four Iraqis, including two policeme, were killed and at least 20 others wounded Monday in separate incidents of violence in Nineveh and its center Mosul and Kirkuk in northern Iraq. A source in the Iraqi police in Mosul told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that unknown gunmen carried out an attack on a police checkpoint in Hamam Al-Aleel area south of Mosul, killing one of its elements. The source added that unidentified gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons toward a civilian near his home in Shoura area south of Mosul, killing him on the spot. It said a suicide bomber was wearing an explosive belt blew himself up near an army checkpoint in the Karama neighborhood in eastern Mosul, wounding four soldiers and a civilian. In another security incident, a Kirkuk police source said that a booby-trapped car parked on the side of a road in the neighborhood of Wasti south of Kirkuk exploded as a police patrol emergency vehicle was passing by, killing one and wounding 15 others.