Six people were killed and more than 50 wounded Wednesday in bombings in northern Iraq, where US and Iraqi forces have been struggling to root out insurgents, police said. In the largest attack, a car bomb ripped through a crowded market area in the town of Sinjar, north-west of Mosul and near the Syrian border, killing four people and wounding 42, Sinjar police lieutenant colonel Fathi Jabburi told AFP.
No further details were immediately available. Earlier Wednesday, a bomb exploded in a Mosul street as an Iraqi police patrol cruised past, injuring several people, local policeman Ahmed Abdul Karim told AFP.
As people rushed to help the wounded a second bomb detonated, killing two people, he added. No police were injured in the attacks. The US military considers Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, to be the last urban stronghold of al Qaeda in Iraq, which is believed to be behind scores of devastating bombings since the 2003 US-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.
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