A shootout between Iraqi police and gunmen Sunday claimed the life of one civilian and left another wounded here, police and medical sources said.
Meanwhile, the 4th Infantry Division said it detained 27 individuals north of Baghdad in the region stretching from former dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit to the Iranian border.
The attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) at a police station in the Sukar neighbourhood in the center of the city of Mosul, said police spokesman Abdel Azal Haffudi.
"As they traded fire, a civilian passing in a car was mortally wounded and a passenger in a second car was hurt," Haffudi said.
The man who died was struck by bullets to the head and shoulder, said Mosul hospital doctor Ahmad Abdullah Rajab.
A second doctor, Yazen Babeli, said the wounded man was hit in the hand and was in a stable condition.
Mosul, 370 kilometres (230 miles) north of Baghdad, is the regular scene of attacks on Iraqi police by insurgents wishing to wreck US efforts to stand up a post-Saddam security force.
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BAGHDAD: An American soldier died here Sunday in a non-combat related incident, a US military spokeswoman said.
"The soldier was from the 2nd Medical Brigade and died at the 31st Combat Support Hospital" in Baghdad, the spokeswoman said, but gave no further details.
According to the latest Pentagon numbers, 172 US soldiers have died of non-combat injuries since coalition forces invaded Iraq last March.