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Suicide car bomb blast kills five in Mosul

10 insurgents killed in US raid, clashes in Fallujah, 2 Iraqis killed in Baghdad explosion

AFP, Reuters, Mosul
At least five people were killed and more than 50 wounded when a suspected suicide car bomb exploded in northern Iraq on Sunday, hours after US air strikes and clashes with insurgents in Fallujah killed 10 other people.
"A car bomb exploded at 8:05 (0405 GMT) in front of the police station in Summer, eastern Mosul," said local police Captain Nidam Mohammed.
Iraq's fledgling US-backed police and security forces have become
frequent targets of bombings and shootings by insurgents.
"There was a driver in the car. He sped up at great speed, so police opened fire to try to stop him and the car, a Japanese four-wheel drive, exploded before reaching the police station," Mohammed added.
The attack came four days after 70 people were killed in a bombing outside a police unit in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, and less than a week after four died in another suicide attack outside the US military base in
Mosul.
The US military said four Iraqi policemen and a civilian were killed in yesterday's bombing. An official at the morgue confirmed four bodies had been received.
Medics at the two main hospitals in Mosul said a total of 51 police and civilians had been admitted with injuries following the blast, which ripped through the entrance of the police station and gutted nearby cars.
In Baghdad, at least one Iraqi was killed and three wounded, including a driver for the BBC, when a bomb narrowly missed a US convoy during the morning rush hour, the Al-Kindi hospital and the British news corporation said.
In Fallujah, US air strikes and clashes on the ground between US marines and insurgents continued overnight in the fiercely anti-US Sunni Muslim bastion, west of Baghdad.
The city has proved one of the most intractable problems and dangerous areas of operations for US marines based in Iraq.
"We have 10 killed and 40 injured from both the bombardment and the earlier clashes," said Doctor Rafih al-Issawi, director of Fallujah's general hospital.
Many of the injured were women and children.
Insurgents attacked three military convoys, provoking US troops to return fire. Ensuing air strikes destroyed one building and an insurgent position, said the US military, putting the death toll at around 10 insurgents.
Powerful explosions rocked Al-Askari neighbourhood in the northeastern part of Fallujah early Sunday as mosques broadcast prayers over loudspeakers and ambulances and cars rushed to the area.
After day-break, an AFP correspondent saw one house completely burnt out, another half-flattened and traces of cluster bombs littering in the street. All the electricity cables were down.
Marines have conducted at least seven air strikes on Fallujah over the past 40 days in which it said dozens of suspected loyalists of suspected Al-Qaeda terror chief in Iraq, Abu Mussab Al-Zarqawiwere killed.
Zarqawi, who has a 25-million-dollar bounty on his head, is blamed for some of the bloodiest car bombings and attacks in Iraq. His group of militants has also claimed a string of killings and kidnappings of foreigners.
In Ramadi, the provincial capital of the restive Al-Anbar province, three civilians were wounded during a gunfight between police and insurgents outside a passport office, police
and a doctor said.
As Beirut reported two Lebanese businessmen kidnapped in Iraq, a tribal mediator said talks to broker the release of seven truckers being held by other militants were expected to continue Sunday with their Kuwaiti employer.
The three Indians, three Kenyans and Egyptian were snatched 11 days ago by the previously unknown "Islamic Secret Army - Holders of the Black Banners".
The kidnappers had issued a "last chance" for the hostages' Kuwaiti employer and governments to capitulate to their demands. They have threatened to start executing their captives at 1500 GMT Saturday.
Ankara has so far been unable to confirm the abduction of two drivers by Zarqawi's group it reportedly claims to be holding.
Insurgent groups in Iraq have made hostage-taking a strategic tool to drive US allies out of the country. The Philippines withdrew its troops a month earlier than scheduled to save one of its nationals held hostage.
Meanwhile, two Iraqis were killed and two others wounded, including a driver for the BBC, when a makeshift bomb exploded in central Baghdad on Sunday, narrowly missing a US convoy, police and witnesses said.
"A man and a woman were killed and two other people were injured when a roadside bomb exploded at around 8:30 am (0430 GMT)," said Captain Amar Mohammed.
The blast happened in Abu Nawas street, shortly after a US military convoy rolled by, the source added.
BBC driver Mohammed Khalaf was wounded in the head by flying glass, said two of his fellow drivers, who refused to be identified.
A spokeswoman at the BBC's Baghdad bureau confirmed that Khalaf had been treated for "superficial head injuries" which were "not life threatening".
Khalaf had not been travelling with any journalists from the British news corporation at the time of the explosion.