(VOI) -- Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and seven others wounded on Friday when a suicide bomber blew up his explosive vehicle near their patrol north of Mosul, an official Iraqi army source said. "A suicide bomber in a pickup truck targeted an Iraqi army patrol on Friday afternoon at the Talkeef intersection, near the Falafeel village, north of Mosul, killing three patrol soldiers and wounding seven others," the source, who asked for anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI).
"The powerful explosion also destroyed two military vehicles of the patrol and damaged 10 nearby civilian vehicles," the source said, adding the wounded soldiers were rushed to the Military Hospital in downtown Mosul for treatment. Meanwhile, a security source in Ninewa province said the final count of casualties from Wednesday's Talafar suicide bombing is 25 deaths and 72 others injured. "Several of the wounded people were taken to the Duhuk and Sinjar hospital for treatment," the source said. |