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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Suicide car bomb kills eight in northern Iraq city - police, medics

MOSUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber driving a car killed at least eight people in Iraq's northern city of Mosul on Monday, police and hospital sources said.

The bomber, who targeted a military checkpoint in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, also wounded eight people, including six soldiers.

(Reporting by Sufyan Mashhasdani; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Michael Roddy)

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