A suicide bomb attack targeted the police chief of Nineveh
province in its capital city of Mosul, on Thursday, killing him and
a bodyguard and wounding five others, a senior provincial police
source said.
"Brigadier General Salih Muhammad Hasan, police chief of Nineveh
province, died from fatal wounds sustained when a suicide bomber
blew up his explosive vest near Hasan's convoy," Brigadier Said
al-Jubouri, head of the provincial police media office, told Xinhua
by telephone.
Hasan was touring the site of Wednesday's huge blast at a three-
story building in the Zanjili area in Mosul that claimed the lives
of 15 people and wounding 141 others, according to the latest
police reports.
Earlier, police reports put the toll at 14 dead and 114
wounded.
Local authorities imposed curfew on the city of Mosul starting
from Thursday midday until further notice, Jubouri said.
(Xinhua News Agency January 25, 2008)
