Civilian wounded by gunmen fire in Mosul

February 6, 2009 - 01:58:31

NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A civilian man was wounded when unidentified gunmen opened fire at a police patrol in western Mosul on Friday, a police source in Ninewa said.

“Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a patrol of the 5th Emergency Police Department in al-Shifaa neighborhood, western Mosul, wounding a civilian man who happened to be near the attack scene,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.

AmR (P)

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