Iraq: suicide bombers kill police chief in Mosul

In the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, two suicide bombers have blown up in a police building in the air and killed the commander and three other policemen in the death. A third suicide bomber was shot by the police before he could enter the building, said a police spokesman. It had been a targeted attack on the commander.

Shamil Ahmed had been known to pursue Al-Qaeda members in Mosul. WON / Karte_irak have suicide bombers, the police commander in Mosul and other police officers killed the bomber had detonated their bombs in the office of the police lieutenant said. An officer was injured. Other victims do not give it seems, was reported from hospital circles.

Already last year, police claimed to Ahmed, an attack, but he survived. Mosul is about 400 kilometers north of Baghdad and is considered the last urban stronghold of Al Qaeda. In recent months, insurgents have again intensified attacks perpetrated in Iraq. Seven years after the fall of President Saddam Hussein to withdraw U.S.

forces withdrew from the country.

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