At least 14 Iraqis were killed and 26 wounded in a roadside bomb blast and fierce clashes on Wednesday between Iraqi police and insurgents in the main northern city of Mosul, medics and police said.
”The hospital received 12 bodies, including two women, and 26 injured — most of them civilians,” said a doctor at Mosul’s Medical City hospital, after the violent clashes broke out between insurgents and police.
The fighting erupted at about midday local time south-west of Mosul on the west bank of the Tigris River amid the sound of loud explosions and heavy gunfire, an AFP correspondent said. At least five bridges were cut off.
Earlier a man and a woman were killed when a roadside bomb exploded in the path of a United States military convoy, police said.
”The bomb went off at 10.35am in the Mamoun neighbourhood, killing a man and a woman and injuring two people,” said Captain Hamad Hassan Abdullah.
The device detonated when a US patrol passed along the road, Abdullah said. The US military said none of its personnel were hurt in the blast.
A doctor at Mosul’s general hospital said pieces of shrapnel had been removed from the two wounded people, who were in a stable condition. — Sapa-AFP