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IRBIL, July 18 (KUNA) -- Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and seven others
sustained injuries as a suicide bomber in a car targeted their patrol vehicles
in northern Mosul, an Iraqi army source told KUNA here on Friday.
The resultant explosion damaged two patrol vehicles and about ten civilian
cars parked nearby where the incident took place, said the source.
In another occurrance the official spokesman for the leadership of security
operations in the city of Nineva Brigadier Khalid Abdulsattar indicated that a
company of Iraqi soldiers, located in Mosul, were able today to arrest Waleed
Awad Fathi in the neighborhood known as Hay Sumer in the southeastern part of
the city of Mosul. Fathi has been wanted by police for being implicated in a
number of crimes and was arrested on tips indicating his whereabouts at a
particular tenement in the city, said Abdulsattar.
Another company of Iraqi soldiers were also able today to arrest three
wanted men as the soldiers carried out two security operations in the areas of
Mahlabiya and Talaafar, west of the city of Mosul, he said.
Furthermore, an explosive charge went off today at Touzkhormato, in
southern Kirkuk, damaging a vehicle used by workers whose job was to protect
oil facilities in the region, and injuring four of them. (end)
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