Topic: Suicide bomber kills woman, injures 10 in Iraq's Mosul city

Media: The Associated Press
Byline: n/a
Date: 23 August 2006



MOSUL, Iraq_A suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up
Wednesday in front of the police headquarters in the northern city of Mosul,
killing a woman and injuring 10 others, police said.

The bomber was apparently trying to enter the police directorate building
when he was stopped at the first of the several checkpoints around it, said
Maj. Gen. Wathiq al-Hamdani, the city police chief.

He said the bomber detonated the belt outside the barricade, killing a woman
bystander and injuring 10 people, including eight policemen and two
civilians.

Mosul, a predominantly Arab Sunni city, is 360 kilometers (225 miles)
northwest of the capital Baghdad, and has been the scene of frequent attacks
on Iraqi government facilities by Sunni insurgents.