At least 5 killed in car bomb attack in northern Iraq
MOSUL. January 17. KAZINFORM At least five people were killed and some 10 others wounded in a car bomb attack at a residential area near the city of Mosul on Monday, a local police source told Xinhua.
The attack occurred in the morning when a car bomb went off at al-Ghadier compound, some 20 km east of Mosul, which houses residents from the Iraqi Shabak minority, the source said on condition of anonymity.
Women and children were among the victims, the source said.
Earlier police reports said that the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber, the source said.
The Iraqi Shabak people are an ethnic and Shi'ite minority group living in villages around Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, particularly, around the provincial capital city of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad.
Iraqi security forces cordoned off the scene, while police experts were defusing another car bomb found in the same area, the source added.
Iraqi cities have been plagued by several attacks, including suicide bombings, since the U.S. troops pulled out of the country earlier last month.