4 killed, wounded in western Mosul blast

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: One of the guards of the Badosh prison was killed and three others wounded in an improvised explosive device (IEd) blast that targeted their patrol in western Mosul city on Tuesday, a security source in Ninewa said.“An IED went off near a security patrol in the al-Islah al-Ziraie neighborhood in western Mosul, leaving a reformatory guard of the Badosh prison killed and three others injured,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency.“The prison patrol had carried convicts to a hospital in Mosul and came under the IED attack while it was returning,” the source added, noting two are seriously wounded.Mosul, the capital city of the violence-scarred province of Ninewa, is located 405 km north of Baghdad.AmR (PT)2232