1 student killed, 65 injured in N Iraq bombings

The incident occurred in the morning when a booby-trapped car parked at the Kokejli area in eastern Mosul detonated near the buses that just arrived from the Christian town of Hamdaniyah, some 30 km east of Mosul, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Moments later, a roadside bomb went off at the scene, targeting the students who were travelling from their town to the University of Mosul, the source said.

"Our latest reports said that a Christian student was killed by the double blasts and 65 people were injured, most of them Christian students," the source added.

Earlier police reports said that a car bomb explosion killed a Christian student and injured 50 others in Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad; Kazinform cites China Daily.

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