URGENT: North Iraq Ninewa’s Emergency Battalion Commander killed in Mosul:

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: The Commander of north Iraq Ninewa Province‘s Emergency Battalion, Colonel Shamel Ahmed Ugla, has been killed when two suicide bombers flew themselves up inside its headquarters in west Mosul‘s Bab-Sinjar district, while the police had managed to kill a third suicide bomber, a security source said on Thursday. “Three suicide bombers, wearing explosive belts, have broken through the headquarters of the 1st Emergency Battalion of Nineveh Police west of Mosul, the capital of Ninewa Province, and two of them blew themselves up in the headquarters of its Commander, Colonel Shamel Ahmed Ugla, killing him on the spot, whilst the third bomber was shot dead by the police,” the security source said. The source told IraqiNews.com news agency that “the body of the dead colonel was not picked up till the time of this report on Thursday morning, due to the huge rubble caused by the explosion inside his headquarters, whilst the number of other victims, killed or injured due to the attack was not known or the possible dead bodies were not picked up either,” he concluded. Mosul, the center of Ninewa Province, is 405 kms to the north of Baghdad. AH (A) / SKH 19