Baghdad - At least one man was killed on Tuesday and six people injured in a string of apparently unrelated attacks in the troubled northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said. At least one civilian bystander was killed and two were wounded when a bomb exploded as a police patrol passed through the Mosul neighbourhood of al-Ayadiya, police told the German Press Agency dpa.
That attack followed the shelling of downtown Mosul's office for the administration of religious endowments. Three people were injured when two mortar shells fell on the building, police said.
In eastern Mosul, "unknown gunmen" shot and wounded Judge Mohammed al-Farhan as he returned from his office, they added. The assailants fled the scene.
Mosul and its environs are among the most religious diverse, and violent, regions of Iraq. Even as politically motivated violence has declined elsewhere in the country, the city and the surrounding area remain the site of near-daily, deadly attacks.
