Mosul, Iraq (Reuters) - eight dead and 19 injured Saturday when a suicide bomber exploded himself at a control point for the Iraqi Army side at a market in the sources of the North of the city of Mosul, police and hospitalsaid.
Attacks against the army and Iraqi police are amounts to prepare to assume full security in the country prior to a total withdrawal of US troops before 31 December, more than eight years after the invasion led by the United States of the Iraq.
"Eight 19 killed, wounded." "Five soldiers were killed and three civilians and two soldiers were among the injured," police of the province of Ninawa Lieutenant Colonel Mahmoud al-Jibouri told Reuters. The toll is final.
A source at the hospital confirmed the number of dead and wounded and said that the attack took place in a popular market in Eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) North of Baghdad.
"The suicide bomber exploded himself at the entrance where Iraqi soldiers were manning a position control of frisk people entering the market," said the source of the hospital.
"The attack took place at the market peak business hours."
Mosul is considered the last urban base remaining Sunni Islamist al Qaeda after the Group was expelled from many parts of Baghdad and Anbar province West US troops allied with the local Sunni Arab tribal militias in 2007.
Although violence has declined considerably since the height of the sectarian war in 2006/07, assassinations and bomb attacks continue daily and the insurgents are still capable of carrying out deadly attacks.
At least eight people were killed and 17 injured Thursday when a suicide bomber jump himself in a mosque in the province of Diyala.
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