Mosul mortar attack kills two
18/05/2005 - 08:13:23Mortar attacks by insurgents in northern Mosul today killed two Iraqis and injured eight others, including seven school children, police and hospital officials said.
All of the attacks happened in eastern Mosul and four of the rounds hit the city’s police academy, but caused no injuries, police Brigadier General Wathiq Mohammed said.
One round landed in front of a grocer’s shop in the al-Masarif neighbourhood and killed the owner.
Another struck a car and killed its driver while seven children walking to school in the al-Jamaa neighbourhood were injured by another.
Mosul, 225 miles north west of Baghdad, is Iraq’s third largest city and has in recent months been beset by organised insurgent attacks and dozens of car bombs.
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