Ninewa blast casualties up to 17

Iraq-Sinjar NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: The casualties from the car bomb explosion that ripped through Sinjar district in west of Mosul on Tuesday rose to one dead and 16 wounded, a security source said. “A car bomb went off in a village in Sinjar district, 120 km west of Mosul, killing one and wounding 16,” the source told IraqiNews.com. A security source had said earlier that one civilian man was killed and four others wounded when a car bomb went off in a village in the district of Sinjar on Tuesday. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. The original city of Mosul stands on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the ancient biblical city of Nineveh on the east bank, but the metropolitan area has now grown to encompass substantial areas on both banks, with five bridges linking the two sides. Despite having an amount of Kurdish population, it does not form part of the area controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government Kurdistan RegionG). There are different communities in Mosul like Christians, Shiites and Kurds along with a Sunni majority. The fabric Muslin, long manufactured here, is named for this city. Another historically important product of the area is Mosul marble. The city is also a historic center for the Nestorian Christianity of the Assyrians, containing the tombs of several Old Testament prophets such as Jonah, Yunus in Arabic, and Nahum. SH (S)/SR 1