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June 8, 2004
Release Number: 04-06-19
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CAR BOMB IN MOSUL TARGETED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
MOSUL, Iraq - A car bomb was detonated in downtown Mosul several hundred meters from the City Hall around 9:15 a.m. June 8.
Initial reports indicated 10 Iraqi civilians were killed, and as many as 100 Iraqi civilians were injured. These numbers were initial assessments and the Ninevah Provincial Government's Chief of Staff now reports that nine people were killed and 25 Iraqi civilians were injured.
The target of the car bomb attack was a convoy that included two members of the Ninevah Provincial Council and the Deputy Chief of Police of Mosul. The council members were not wounded. The deputy chief was wounded, but not seriously.
Mosul Police and Iraqi Civil Defense Corps Soldiers have secured the scene. Mosul hospitals are handling all of the injuries. Coalition forces are providing security and medical assistance.
There was no structural damage to the City Hall building, but there is significant damage to buildings in the immediate blast area.
Witnesses said the car bomb was an orange and white taxi with three suicide bombers inside. Nine vehicles at the scene caught fire.
Reports of a second car bomb outside of a military compound in north Mosul are inaccurate. Several mortar rounds impacted a military base camp in north Mosul at 10:15 a.m., and two contract employees were injured. They have been transported to military medical facilities for care.
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