By PRESSTV
Some fourteen people have been killed and dozens more wounded across Iraq as the war-torn country has been caught in a series of huge bombings in the last two months.
At least nine people lost their lives and 14 others sustained wounds on Saturday when a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into a police station in Shirqat — located 300 km (190 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
A police source said that three policemen were killed and six others wounded in the assault. He added that the security forces have sealed off the area and rushed the wounded to Tikrit Teaching Hospital for treatment.
The attack came on the same day that twenty-one people were killed or wounded when a car bomb blast ripped through a marketplace in Iraq’s disrupted and second largest city, Mosul.
An unnamed police source told the Voices of Iraq news agency that the car bomb went off at a market in the al-Shamal district, west of the volatile city. Four civilians were killed and 17 others were wounded in the explosion.
Furthermore, four Iraqi servicemen were wounded when mortar shells landed on their outpost at the al-Tanak district in western Mosul.
A volatile ethnic mix of Sunni Arabs, Kurds and Christians, Mosul remains the scene of frequent shootings and bombings, and US commanders regard the once cosmopolitan city as the last urban bastion of pro-Qaeda militants in Iraq. Mosul, the capital city of Iraq’s Nineveh Province is situated some 396 km (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad.
Elsewhere, one soldier was killed and two civilians wounded when an improvised explosive device planted on a vehicle blew up in northern Baghdad on Saturday.
Explosions, rampant throughout violence-plagued Iraq, claim civilian lives and leave many others wounded almost every day in the country.
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